<html><body class="ApplePlainTextBody" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I don't really see the advantage to be honest. If I needed Asterisk access from anywhere I'd just run it locally on my laptop, connect to an ITSP via IAX or SIP, and run a softphone app locally. The only exception I can think of is when you'd want people to be able to leave voicemail on your system when you're not connected. What are the other reasons for wanting to run it in the cloud?<br><br><br>On Sep 9, 2008, at 7:56 PM, Steve Finkelstein wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Hey folks,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I'm looking to potentially take some of my Asterisk servers and see<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">how well they fare in a cloud computing environment such as Amazon EC2<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">+ S3. I was curious to hear feedback from anyone who's willing to<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">share their experience if they've already done the same. Have you had<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">a positive experience and if not with Amazon, what other grid<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">computing platform? Was it horrible and you'll never go back to it?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Great ordeal of jitter/noise?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Thanks a lot for your insight. :-)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">/sf<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">-- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com --<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Register Now: http://www.astricon.net<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">asterisk-users mailing list<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users<br></blockquote><br></body></html>