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...
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...
Sure this doesn’t address issues such as bandwidth but you have that to deal with regardless of EC2 or Dedicated Server...
Maybe I’ve just spent to much time dealing in the carrier arena where things like capacity and quality matter...
K
On 7/5/11 11:17 AM, "Chris Hemmings" <chris@cheeky.org> wrote:
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.
Not having to worry about 'what if my server dies' is quite nice.
Creating a quick instance based on the one I'm currently running to test something and not be tied into a X month contract.
Adding/Removing capacity to my VM as and when I want to.
Chris
On 5 July 2011 17:03, Ken Rice <krice@freeswitch.org> wrote:
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...
On 7/5/11 10:52 AM, "Sanjay Arora" <sanjay.k.arora@gmail.com <http://sanjay.k.arora@gmail.com> > wrote:
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 9:14 PM, Ken Rice <krice@freeswitch.org <http://krice@freeswitch.org> > wrote:
For $175 you can easily rent a full Dedicated Server w/ money left Over...
Heck for $200 I’ll rent you 2 dedicated servers
Thanks, I'll keep that in mind ;-)
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?
Sanjay.
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