Re: [asterisk-biz] Colocated Asterisk Server

I believe we're paying around $5/amp here in the US. Which is not
unreasonable I think.

Alex Balashov wrote:
> Chris Bagnall wrote:
>
>>> Or, just colocate in the US.
>> Fine for web / database services, but probably not so good for telephony applications
>> (unless you're serving a predominantly US-based customer base).
>
> Well, that's not necessarily true. Yes, of course you're going to add
> some latency, but it doesn't have to be too much. It all depends on how
> the US data center is peered. If it's peered with primarily Tier 1
> backbones that privately haul trans-Atlantic traffic and go back to
> LINX, Redbus, etc. in London, you're pretty well off.
>
> That said, of course, there is additional latency. If by "telephony
> applications" you mean media handling (and no way to release it), then
> you probably don't want to be in the US serving a UK customer base. If
> it's another kind of telephony application, it might work great.
>
> There are several calling card vendors I deal with that send their media
> to termination providers in Western Europe from here in the US and don't
> seem to get any complaints.
>
>>> Data center power offerings here are not even denominated in terms of
>>> single amps, but usually tens of them.
>> Most full racks in the well-connected datacentres in the UK generally offer 8 or 16A included
>> in your rental charge. Anything above that is usually charged extra, and the "overuse" charges
>> are not inconsiderable. Bear in mind if you want to fully load that rack with 1U boxes and
>> each server's using 0.9A, even a 16A allocation is woefully insufficient.
>
> Well, of course. It's pretty much the same here, with the difference
> that it is more typical to just charge for another block of amps as an
> overage rather than bill obscene amounts per amp. It depends on the
> data center, though.
>

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