On May 26, 2009, at 10:11 AM, Kristian Kielhofner wrote:
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.
For some people this isn't a huge difference... now if it were to swap continents then yes it would be a problem. But I haven't seen Amazon do this but I haven't left the instances up long enough to see.
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.
There are other companies that do this stuff but personally me... I want my stuff running on real hardware.
Brian West br...@freeswitch.org -- Meet us at ClueCon! http://www.cluecon.com
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