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 referring to AWS deployment. Please help me to choose AWS server instance. *Thanks & Regards,* Amit Patkar On 3/7/2015 12:19 AM, Jeff LaCoursiere wrote:> > 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 recording. Number of concurrent calls expected are >> 500+. 2 instances will be configured for 100% redundancy. Heart beat >> will be used to determine active instance. >> How should I choose EC2 instance? >> How many vCPU, RAM should be selected? I am assuming that server with >> ssd is required as all 500+ calls needs to be recorded. >> >> Regards, >> Amit Patkar-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20150307/5c5a68e1/attachment.html>
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 you see lots of posts about hosting asterisk and/or freeswitch on EC2. I have done it myself and even have some clients doing it now *for proof of concept*. I've never heard of anyone using it for the kind of load you are talking about. I'm assuming with such a giant load you are making a decent profit. Buy some hefty hardware and do the architecture properly. You can rent half a rack at lots of high end datacenters for less than $1000/month. j On 03/07/2015 12:43 AM, Amit Patkar wrote:> 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 referring to AWS deployment. Please help me to choose > AWS server instance. > > *Thanks & Regards,* > Amit Patkar > > > On 3/7/2015 12:19 AM, Jeff LaCoursiere wrote: >> >> 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 recording. Number of concurrent calls expected are >>> 500+. 2 instances will be configured for 100% redundancy. Heart beat >>> will be used to determine active instance. >>> How should I choose EC2 instance? >>> How many vCPU, RAM should be selected? I am assuming that server >>> with ssd is required as all 500+ calls needs to be recorded. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Amit Patkar > > > >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20150308/2e6fd93d/attachment.html>
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 <jeff at jeff.net> wrote: > > > 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 you see lots of posts about hosting asterisk and/or freeswitch on EC2. I have done it myself and even have some clients doing it now *for proof of concept*. I've never heard of anyone using it for the kind of load you are talking about. I'm assuming with such a giant load you are making a decent profit. Buy some hefty hardware and do the architecture properly. You can rent half a rack at lots of high end datacenters for less than $1000/month. > > j > >> On 03/07/2015 12:43 AM, Amit Patkar wrote: >> 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 referring to AWS deployment. Please help me to choose AWS server instance. >> >> Thanks & Regards, >> Amit Patkar >> >>> On 3/7/2015 12:19 AM, Jeff LaCoursiere wrote: >>> >>> 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 recording. Number of concurrent calls expected are 500+. 2 instances will be configured for 100% redundancy. Heart beat will be used to determine active instance. >>>> How should I choose EC2 instance? >>>> How many vCPU, RAM should be selected? I am assuming that server with ssd is required as all 500+ calls needs to be recorded. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Amit Patkar > > -- > _____________________________________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: > http://www.asterisk.org/hello > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20150308/784fc265/attachment.html>