[asterisk-users] Experience with virtual servers?

[Stuart Elvish - IP Exchange Systems]

Hi Binni,

It often depends on how over-subscribed / over-sold the server is as
well as CPU scheduling. People often suggest KVM VPS' over OpenVZ etc.

There are a few companies that have VPS products specifically designed
for voice hosting (presumably a lower ratio of VM's per server and
upstream bandwidth better suited for voice) and this may be worth
investigating. Some even provide templates for provisioning your
container / VM with TrixBox or Elastix.

If you are looking for a particular geographical location or a have a
specific solution (conferencing / trunk lines etc) your options won't be
as many.

Kind Regards
Stuart

On 04/20/2012 07:51 PM, Brynjolfur Thorvardsson wrote:
> Hi All
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> Does anybody have experience with running Asterisk on virtual servers? I
> have been experimenting with two suppliers and I am not altogether happy
> with sound quality etc.
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> Is it perhaps foolish to try and install a “production” Asterisk server
> on a virtual machine? With dedicated servers being comparatively cheap
> (although still several times more expensive than virtual servers),
> perhaps that is the way  I should be going? I have heard someone mention
> “Asterisk friendly” VPS providers, how can you tell if they are or
> aren’t friendly?  
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> 
> We currently have our Asterisk server running on a five year old single
> AMD CPU 32 bit machine with 512Mb and that works fine. Even the cheapest
> virtual server vendors offer servers that seem much more powerful but
> after testing I am not so sure any more!
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> Any info would be very welcome!
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> 
> Regards
> 
>  
> 
> Binni
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> 
> 
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