[asterisk-users] Asterisk on EC2 cloud computing - price assumptions - your brain needed

[Tzafrir Cohen]

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.

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