[Serusers] SIP Express Bundle ready-to-go idea, request for input

[Jeremy A]

Hello Greger,

My experience has been using VMware Server with a Centos 5.0 OS and SER.
It has been absolutely rock solid and is part of a production system. I
can thoroughly recommend it as a base.

VMWare server is always free and is available for Windows and Linux.
There is a good user community.

Many O/S have a common problem of a too fast release cycle. They are
(b)leeding edge and their stability and security is not guaranteed. On
the other hand Centos 5.0 is enterprise grade and runs a slow release
cycle that has thoroughly tested components.

Centos is also not so large as people make out. You can produce quite
usable uncompressed systems in the range of 500 Meg - Even smaller if
you get rid of atrocities like vi-enhanced at 30M, and emacs, and all
the regional stuff, and all the manuals and the hundreds of utilities
that would never be used on a production system. When you compress a
500M vmware system you can get download sizes of 100-200M. The system
will run fine in 256M of RAM.

Jeremy

Greger V. Teigre wrote:
> Hi guys,
> I have been playing with the following idea:
> Create a ready-to-run OS image with everything that is needed for
> iptel.org apps pre-installed + a complete installation of:
> * SER 2.0 (release)
> * rtpproxy
> * SEMS
> * SERweb
> * maybe sipsak, some monitoring tools, etc
>
>
> The idea is to create a small script 'config_iptelorg' for configuring
> the installation to your needs.  You should then be able to download
> the ready image, boot it, go through the script and have an up and
> running iptel.org proxy and app server just like the iptel.org free
> SIP service in maybe 10-15 minutes. This way you could host a SIP
> service for your own domain with close to no setup at all.
>
> Some questions to you:
> * Is there any interest for this at all?
> * I was thinking about using Ubuntu 7.10 server as the OS. Any
> thoughts/preferences?
> * Should the image be an Amazon EC3 image (you could use
> http://www.rightscale.com and get it running in no time with 10
> run-hours free) or should it be a VMware appliance to be run with free
> VMware Player?
> * Other suggestions/comments?
>
> I could need some help with this, anyone interested in lending me a
> hand? (could be anything, documentation, testing, installation, etc)
> g-)
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