[Freeswitch-users] FS in Amazon EC2 for production?

[Erik Wickstrom]

I've been running a production FS app on EC2 since December.  It's been
really stable.  Same server/instance since day1.  We've haven't had any
complaints....

Erik

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 8:11 AM, Kristian Kielhofner <
kristian.kielhofner at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Brian West <brian at 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
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