I moved the Asterisk server into the EC2 cloud today. It was pretty quick.
Running it off my home box was no longer an option since we have people testing the service these days and I want to make sure there are no outages. I still need to setup a test server so we can test out new configurations before putting them live. I had previously hacked up a little configuration script that shuffles stuff around and performs a couple of
FWIW, I figured out how to get Asterisk working from behind a NAT. It was as simple as setting the
Running it off my home box was no longer an option since we have people testing the service these days and I want to make sure there are no outages. I still need to setup a test server so we can test out new configurations before putting them live. I had previously hacked up a little configuration script that shuffles stuff around and performs a couple of
emerges. I used the "eminent" AMI that is based on a simple Gentoo install. I plan on putting together my own clean base image at some point in the future but right now this one is good enough. I also plan on building a nice overlay that I can use with portage to update my boxen quickly and efficiently.FWIW, I figured out how to get Asterisk working from behind a NAT. It was as simple as setting the
externip variable in the sip.conf file.
