Re: [asterisk-users] AWS/EC2 server selection

2015-03-08 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
Amazon instances are shared resources. I wouldn't want to count on timing or disk throughput, and you can't just ask them to do ssd - its a virtual machine! 500 simultaneous recordings is a hefty load, and I would want to know that the underlying hardware is dedicated to the task. Sure

Re: [asterisk-users] AWS/EC2 server selection

2015-03-08 Thread Jai Rangi
Digital ocean offers ssd on all the virtual machines. Uptime is good. Jai Rangi Www.didforsale.com www.cebodtelecom.com www.cebod.com On Mar 8, 2015, at 8:11 AM, Jeff LaCoursiere j...@jeff.net wrote: Amazon instances are shared resources. I wouldn't want to count on timing or disk

Re: [asterisk-users] AWS/EC2 server selection

2015-03-08 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
Still a shared resource. I don't see the benefit. Even beyond the shared resource bit, with the kind of IO you are likely to be pushing, you will want a decent NAS with lots of spindles and fibre channel to your hosts. j On 03/08/2015 10:51 AM, Jai Rangi wrote: Digital ocean offers ssd

Re: [asterisk-users] AWS/EC2 server selection

2015-03-08 Thread Jai Rangi
Agreed, network will be bottleneck even with ssd on shared resource. For a stable env having a dedicated hosted server will be the best approach and cheaper too. Jai Rangi Www.didforsale.com www.cebodtelecom.com www.cebod.com On Mar 8, 2015, at 9:10 AM, Jeff LaCoursiere j...@jeff.net wrote:

[asterisk-users] AWS/EC2 server selection

2015-03-06 Thread Amit Patkar
Hi I plan to host Asterisk instances on AWS/EC2 servers. Requirement is to run asterisk instance with transcoding (g.729 + g.711) and full recording. Number of concurrent calls expected are 500+. 2 instances will be configured for 100% redundancy. Heart beat will be used to determine active

Re: [asterisk-users] AWS/EC2 server selection

2015-03-06 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
Why use Amazon? With that kind of load I would want dedicated servers. Call Rackspace or Softlayer. j On 03/06/2015 11:59 AM, Amit Patkar wrote: Hi I plan to host Asterisk instances on AWS/EC2 servers. Requirement is to run asterisk instance with transcoding (g.729 + g.711) and full

Re: [asterisk-users] AWS/EC2 server selection

2015-03-06 Thread Amit Patkar
Hi Jeff Are you aware of any challenges of hosting it on AWS? It will help me to work out alternate plan. Is there any recommendation? Should I split it to multiple instances and balance traffic across multiple small server instances? I can use Kamailio to balance traffic. I see many posts