March 2 - Grid Maintenance/Offline completed at 11:40PM

11:40 PM Grid maintenance completed. All regions online. Databases optimized.   9:30 PM Notecard activity generated so many assets that it filled up the asset storage disk. Please refrain from creating any new items until the grid maintenance completes.   To deflate the affected databases, I will take down the grid for at most a ... Continuare »

2nd Mar 2023
Update: Feb 2 - Grid Upgrades Completed 8PM to 11:30PM

11:25 Grid in online. All regions were upgraded. The grid upgraded has completed. 7:50PM - Unoccupied regions shutting down UPDATE - New Date February 2 - Grid Offline for Upgrades 8PM to 2AMThe grid will be upgraded from its current version 2021 May 5 to the latest OpenSim NGC. This upgrade takes a number of fixes from yeti that ... Continuare »

30th Jan 2023
Jan 25 - Quick Grid Maintenance Completed

02:08 - Maintenance completed, grid is online

01:30 - I have some linux updates to apply that requires a short 30 minute grid down time.

25th Jan 2023
Happy New Year - 2023 -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQuwhuLQ7ss

Happy new year. Let us make 2023 a brighter and better year.

2022 New Year's Eve Pyromusical fireworks

2nd Jan 2023
NOV 19 - Grid is Online

9:19 PMDNS problems resolved.... Grid is up.   5:00PMPeople are unable to go inworld since 5PM. Though servers are operational, they are unable to communicate with each other. I am checking the domain nameservers to see why they are not resolving requests. I have no estimate yet on how long this outage will last. Please check status from the DG ... Continuare »

29th Nov 2022
Nov 19 - OpenSim Grid Survey - ENDED

Thanks to everyone who participated in the OpenSim Grid Survey! We should see the results in a day or two.

 

 

This is it. today is the last day: to submit the Hypergridbusiness Opensim Grid Survey time again. Do not delay. Please fill out this survey today. https://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2022/11/2022-opensim-grid-survey/

19th Nov 2022
Nov 16 - Grid offline until 12:20AM - COMPLETED

System updates being applied, so a short grid downtime.

15th Nov 2022
Nov 3 - Grid Maintenance and Optimization 9:30AM, completed 10:50AM

9:30AM - Grid Maintenance All servers are being upgraded to the latest kernel. Region databases are also going to be optimized. We do this quarterly as a performance tuneup. The grid will be offline until approximately 10:30AM (or sooner).   10:50AM - Grid Maintainance Completed It took longer than expected. All regions online, grid ... Continuare »

3rd Nov 2022
Oct 10 - Grid Server Hardware Crash and Recovery

10/10/22 2:46 PM Grid time - Hardware Crash OVH support reported a hardware crash of the Discovery Grid Server. It is likely repeated machine check error recovery was happening previous to the crash, causing slow performance.   10/10/22 3:19 PM Grid time - Hardware Repair & Recovery All the RAM modules in the grid server were replaced by ... Continuare »

10th Oct 2022
Oct 3 - Region Outages

UPDATE 09:00 - all coms are back. It is a rarity to have both external primary and backup DNS servers go down, but they did. Rerouting completed. All regions should be online again. I tested several. Please file a support ticket if your region in not accessible. 06:00 - Communication between several region servers is down. It appears to be a DNS ... Continuare »

3rd Oct 2022