I have yet to take up Arik Baratz on his generous offer to help me setup my own Asterisk server, but in the meantime I learne a couple of things:
1. Amazon EC2 might contain surprises in the bill. I'm saying this VERY cautiously based on one test server we had for a few days with lots of disk space (it runs a web application with a 300Gb disk for MySQL database) but it should be checked carefully before jumping on it. 2. The following is a thread on the other mailing list I follow where people give some more useful advise about setting up VoIP networks http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/2009/02/msg00051.html. In particular I'm curios to hear what others have to say about FreeSwitch (freeswitch.org) compared to Asterisk, as I keep hearing that Asterisk configuration is somewhat of a black art (if it turns to be as much "black art" as Perl programming then I might even enjoy it :) and the guy here http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/2009/02/msg00059.html who raised the FreeSWITCH option says that nothing less than a gun pointed at his head will make him go back to Asterisk. Cheers, --Amos _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
