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

Raffaele P. Guidi raffaele.p.guidi at gmail.com
Wed May 27 07:15:09 PDT 2009


Wow, that's cool. Can you give us some figures? How many users/calls per
day, what is the AMI setup, an average cost per month? Do you think it would
be a feasible solution for a call center?

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 18:21, Erik Wickstrom <erik at erikwickstrom.com>wrote:

> 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
>> http://www.astlinux.org
>> http://blog.krisk.org
>> http://www.star2star.com
>> http://www.submityoursip.com
>> http://www.voalte.com
>>
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