Why we (also) use dedicated servers
Snoopy Pfeffer gives an excellent explanation on why one should not use virtual servers or cloud to host OpenSim. We thought about it before setting up our gird, and came exactly to the same conclusion. She just gives a really good explanation on this....Back to life
We had a DNS issue. We fixed it, but it could take some time to propagate. If you still can’t connect, restarting your computer or flushing DNS cache may help. Otherwise, the DNS update should not take longer than one hour.Servers are down
Our Opensim servers are down. OSGrid failure, yesterday, made me think “Luckily, it’s not me”. Well, today, it’s me. We are investigating and try to put it online as soon as possibleReferenced on Hyperica.com (thanks Maria)
Our regions Grand Place and Agora are now referenced on Hyperica.com.
And it was really funny for me to discover that the first noticed place was Agora (speculoos.world:8002:Agora), because of the NPC outfit vendors we made. I admit I love playing with NPC, and the outfit vendors are just an example, the dancing avatar in the middle of Grand Place is another one I am proud of.
Avatar as OpenID key
There is a lot of discussions about using or not OpenID or OAuth to login to opensim servers. But what about the inverse process? We worked out a in-house solution, using a web server with access to OpenSim’s MySQL database… More after the break. We still think the way to go would be to debug and enhance the core module of OpenSim, so suggestions are still welcome.
Update 0.7.3 and new server
After a few days of testing the new version, we decided to launch the update of all sims. We take the opportunity to migrate to a new more powerful server.
The update process has been prepared in such a way that it takes only a few minutes for each sim.
Experimenting de-centralized grid
OpenSim is supposed to be working with de-centralized server, that’s the goal of a grid, right? So, theorically, I should be able to run a region in a grid, while using another grid’s authentication server. And inventory and assets servers.
Opensim 0.7.3 upgrade in progress
We are currently in the process of upgrading the servers to OpenSimulator 0.7.3 release. Currently, one of our server has been migrated, and we are checking if everything is going fine before making a rolling upgrade of all regions. We are quite excited by new...Give, give, do-give…
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