[asterisk-biz] Doesn anyone use Godaddy's dedicated server with Asterisk

[Peter Beckman]

On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, c.savinovich at itntelecom.com wrote:

> If you use any virtual dedicated server you will not be able to time the
> calls, if you plan to use Asterisk with a prepay billing system.
> Something about Asterisk using the clock cycles of the cpu to do its
> timing, which in the case of a virtual server, throws the time metering
> off...  curiously, I was having a conversation a couple of days ago with
> a friend of mine who owns a colocation center that provide VPS's here in
> NYC, and he claimed that he had solved that issue.

  They may be using VMware to do Virtual Servers, I've heard of this clock
  skew problem with VMware.  I believe it is an issue where a BIOS setting
  interferes with the virtualization VMware does.

  They may have determined that and turned off that BIOS setting (I forget
  what it was specifically).

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Peter Beckman                                                  Internet Guy
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