On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 11:35:53AM -0800, John Todd wrote: > > On Feb 13, 2009, at 11:05 AM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 09:59:50AM -0800, John Todd wrote: > >> > >> I've been involved with getting better data for running Asterisk on > >> the Amazon EC2 cloud computing system. Here are some calculations > >> I've made on costs based on current published prices on Amazon's > >> system. Feel free to tell me that I'm wrong with these > >> calculations - > >> but be specific if you find any problems, as I suspect others may > >> glom > >> onto these figures as gospel and I'd hate to have the wrong data in > >> there. > >> > >> http://www.loligo.com/asterisk/misc/amazon-ec2.xls > >> > >> The net of my calculations is that a small instance of 20 users in a > >> standard office environment would cost about $75 per month, which > >> when > >> compared to running a server in-house works out to be (raw cost, not > >> including admin time and not discounting out-of-office bandwidth) > >> only > >> $38.56 more. Very interesting. > > > > For 20$ or slightly more you can rent a Xen or OpenVZ virtual host > > which > > will probably do as well. > > > For the average Xen VM host, what's the price for bandwidth, assuming > G.711 channels at the rates I quoted?
I recently got myself a really cheap Xen hosting (10$ a month). It includes a bandwith usage of up to 2mbps . Note that I don't intend to use it for VoIP hosting. There are plenty of providers. You need to shop around a bit. > I don't have a list of > bandwidth costs here for other hosting providers. Of course, Amazon > is simply the most well-known "cloud" system at the moment but you can > fill in the slots in the spreadsheet with whatever data might be > applicable. Amazon also has a decent IP network peering structure > from what I've seen, so paths into their network are typically short > and direct. The location of the hosting facility is something you can easily find with every such provider. -- Tzafrir Cohen icq#16849755 jabber:tzafrir.co...@xorcom.com +972-50-7952406 mailto:tzafrir.co...@xorcom.com http://www.xorcom.com iax:gu...@local.xorcom.com/tzafrir _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users