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0 pointstoumhi15y ago0 comments

Yes, if you use an elastic cloud, by all means, spin more instances :-) Most existing companies still have real servers however.

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bonzoesc15y ago

Most existing companies don't run P2P voice chat networks, either. Using EC2 or some other elastic cloud for emergency supernodes makes a lot of sense, since they can outsource the risk of those machines sitting idle to Amazon.

TrevorJ15y ago

The "cloud" is still made up of real servers ^.^

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bonzoesc15y ago

TrevorJ15y ago

The "cloud" is still made up of real servers ^.^

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