br> pose some interesting questions. As a quick and dirty estimate if you<br> assume one of the standard small ec2 instances could cope with 100<br> simultaneous g711 calls (I don't know if that is the case just<br> guessing) then you'll chew up approx. 2MB/s (you pay for bandwidth<br> both ways). Assuming that you'd then have 1MB/s average to account for<br> quite and busy call times then it would be 3.6GB/hour or 86.4GB/day.<br> At the Amazon price of $0.10/GB that's $8.64/day or $260/month. The<br> server instance will cost you $72/month so total cost for 100/calls<br> per month is $332.<br> <br> A typical dedicated server for $300/month is roughly equivalent to an<br> ec2 small instance and comes with 500GB of bandwidth/month which is<br> only a fifth of what's required but you could probably get the extra<br> 2TB/month thrown in for $32/month making the dedicated server and ec2<br> prices the same.<br> <br> There are serious pros and cons between these approaches. With the ec2<br> you don't get a permanent static IP, with a dedicated server you do.<br> With ec2 you could scale up and down between 1 server and 4 servers at<br> the drop of a hat to save costs and cope with peak and quite times,<br> with dedicated servers you're stuff with 12 or 24 month contracts for<br> the number of servers you'd need under maximum load. And then of<br> course the major factor for both is what the call quality will be<br> like.<br> <br> Regards,<br> <br> Greyman.<br> <div><div></div><div class=3D"Wj3C7c"><br> _______________________________________________<br> -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by <a href=3D"http://www.api-digital.com" target=3D"_blank">http://www.api-digital.com</a> --<br> <br> AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona<br> Register Now: <a href=3D"http://www.astricon.net" target=3D"_blank">http://www.astricon.net</a><br> <br> asterisk-users mailing list<br> To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:<br> <a href=3D"http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users" target=3D"_blank">http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br> ------=_Part_44605_30790530.1215825382186--