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<FONT FACE="Monaco, Courier New"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Who said anything about a X month contract? Not to mention what happens when instance X goes batty and takes out Instance Y or at the minimal impacts CPU and I/O performance and leaves you with crappy sounding calls...<BR>
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Sure “cloud” resource have some things that could be nice, like on demand adding a webserver or the like, but that’s all store/forward services, not real time services... I’m not willing to impact the call quality of a customer generating $1000s in monthly billables to save $50 by using a $50 EC2 instance when I can get a dedicated server for $100 to $150 and be assured that someone elses crazy process isnt going to affect mine...<BR>
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Sure this doesn’t address issues such as bandwidth but you have that to deal with regardless of EC2 or Dedicated Server...<BR>
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Maybe I’ve just spent to much time dealing in the carrier arena where things like capacity and quality matter... <BR>
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On 7/5/11 11:17 AM, "Chris Hemmings" <<a href="chris@cheeky.org">chris@cheeky.org</a>> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Monaco, Courier New"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>I must admit I'm a bit of a Cloud/VM fan. The thought of not having to think about the actual hardware you are running on is quite liberating.<BR>
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Not having to worry about 'what if my server dies' is quite nice.<BR>
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Creating a quick instance based on the one I'm currently running to test something and not be tied into a X month contract.<BR>
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Adding/Removing capacity to my VM as and when I want to.<BR>
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On 5 July 2011 17:03, Ken Rice <<a href="krice@freeswitch.org">krice@freeswitch.org</a>> wrote:<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Monaco, Courier New"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Its not specifically that easy, however keep in mind, that a $100 Dedicated server, on reasonable bandwidth will probably handle more traffic then you can imagine...<BR>
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On 7/5/11 10:52 AM, "Sanjay Arora" <<a href="sanjay.k.arora@gmail.com">sanjay.k.arora@gmail.com</a> <<a href="http://sanjay.k.arora@gmail.com">http://sanjay.k.arora@gmail.com</a>> > wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Monaco, Courier New"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 9:14 PM, Ken Rice <<a href="krice@freeswitch.org">krice@freeswitch.org</a> <<a href="http://krice@freeswitch.org">http://krice@freeswitch.org</a>> > wrote:<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Monaco, Courier New"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>For $175 you can easily rent a full Dedicated Server w/ money left Over...<BR>
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Heck for $200 I’ll rent you 2 dedicated servers<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Monaco, Courier New"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Thanks, I'll keep that in mind ;-)<BR>
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But is scaling to a higher server as easy as it would be in Amazon...just boot up in a higher instance....or am I deluding myself?<BR>
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