If you have no analog lines, Amazon/Rackspace/... will probably beat
your local ISP on bandwidth to your SIP/IAX carrier.
If your users are not in the same building as your in-house hosted
Asterisk, Amazon might have a lot better connectivity with your users.
You certainly have a lot more flexibility in adding power to your setup
at an Amazon.
I guess that one can decide what are the critical points that need to be
tested (call volume, call quality, user connectivity) and devise a test
setup.
Ron
On 22/11/2013 1:18 PM, Todd R. wrote:
I would have said the same thing a while back but, I can't ignore the
fact that there have been what seems to be many "Virtualization"
success stories.
The idea that Asterisk just likes to be on it's own dedicated hardware
has always caused me to prefer dedicated hardware.
But, is the possibility of a single piece of hardware failing "better"
than something that will likely never just flat out die?
I know there are high availability solutions out there and it's not
that I don't have backups and disaster recovery plans in place.
I just want to make things far better regarding redundancy, recovery
and scalability and virtualization is hard to beat when you start
talking about these things.
There are definitely people/companies using virtualized Asterisk
solutions successfully, so I feel like it can be done.
Asterisk has come a long way since I first starting messing with
Asterisk and so has Asterisk itself.
So, I am trying to determine what is bad, what to look out for in
terms of virtualizing. If it's still as bad of an idea as it was say 5
years ago, then I need to understand why and if there is a work around.
At this point, the benefits of virtualizing my Asterisk boxes are too
many to count. So, if I can't find any concrete reasons to NOT do this
beyond "That's a bad idea" then I am going to give it a go. If I do, I
am looking for any advice good or bad from those that have gone down
this road successfully or with miserable failure.
My opinion all along has been Asterisk + Virtualization + Real Live
Production Use = BAD IDEA!
Now, I am trying to figure out if that's just the opinion of an old
man (sort of old) who just doesn't want to accept that virtualization
if a better way (in terms of Asterisk).
So, I am hoping for people to tell me why Amazon AWS specifically is a
good or bad idea with as much detail as possible.
Thanks!
> To: tjrl...@live.com; asterisk-users@lists.digium.com
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Amazon, Asterisk and reliability
beyond a hobby system?
> Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 13:04:44 -0500
> From: cov...@ccs.covici.com
>
> I would thinktwice about Amazon -- and virtual in general is not a good
> idea for this sort of thing. I have seen messages about bad results
> with amazon specifically.
>
> Todd R. <tjrl...@live.com> wrote:
>
> > Just checking one more time to see if anyone has an opinion on
this. I am primarily interested in using a cloud type setup such as
Amazon AWS for the redundancy, easy backup and recovery options. It's
not about price but the idea that it will be very hard for a single
piece of hardware to ruin my day.
> >
> > From: tjrl...@live.com
> > To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com
> > Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 18:33:38 -0600
> > Subject: [asterisk-users] Amazon, Asterisk and reliability beyond
a hobby system?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Took me a while but I have finally embraced cloud computing and
all the benefits.
> > The only thing I have yet to feel comfortable about putting in the
cloud is real live Asterisk boxes to be used in production. I know
it's being done because as far as I know Twilio is using Amazon for
their Asterisk boxes.
> > I have read all the fun articles on building hobby type systems
and that's all great.
> > What I really need to hear is from those that have deployed
Asterisk in Amazon or Digital Ocean and how many simultaneous calls
they are pushing through it and what the call quality and reliability
has been.
> > Right now I am still using dedicated hardware but I could become
much more redundant and scale much faster using Amazon or Digital Ocean.
> > Thanks in advance for any information from those that have already
been down this road...
> >
> > --
> > _____________________________________________________________________
> > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com --
> > New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs:
> > http://www.asterisk.org/hello
> >
> > asterisk-users mailing list
> > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:
> > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
> > ----------------------------------------------------
> > Alternatives:
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------
> > --
> > _____________________________________________________________________
> > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com --
> > New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs:
> > http://www.asterisk.org/hello
> >
> > asterisk-users mailing list
> > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:
> > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
> --
> Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is:
> How do
> you spend it?
>
> John Covici
> cov...@ccs.covici.com
--
Ron Wheeler
President
Artifact Software Inc
email: rwhee...@artifact-software.com
skype: ronaldmwheeler
phone: 866-970-2435, ext 102
--
_____________________________________________________________________
-- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com --
New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs:
http://www.asterisk.org/hello
asterisk-users mailing list
To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:
http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users