On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Brian West <brian@freeswitch.org> wrote:
Not with FreeSWITCH in our testing. Now if you have stupid defaults in your virtualization env. it might act funny but I have run FS on EC2 without a problem.
/b
Hey Brian, FreeSWITCH in EC2 is a bit of a mystery to me... Call me old fashioned but in my mind VoIP and geography are linked in %99 of scenarios. Having VoIP services in a pure "cloud" environment just doesn't sound like a good idea to me. Consider a "hosted" environment with clients registered to a FreeSWITCH server. One day your instance is physically running on hardware in Seattle. The next day it could (potentially) be running in Chicago. That's obviously a very different routing path for your clients. Even /if/ Amazon (or whomever) employs every routing/network trick in the book you still won't be able to get over that change in geography. It's certainly possible a change like this may very well never happen in practice. I wouldn't know; I've never used EC2 and I don't even know that much about it. I'm just curious how well strictly, practically speaking this will work in the long term. -- Kristian Kielhofner http://www.astlinux.org http://blog.krisk.org http://www.star2star.com http://www.submityoursip.com http://www.voalte.com