Devokan hosting on OSgrid
Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 7:29 am
We're about to embark on an experiment: a mixture of home-based and hosted regions in proximity to each other.
At the moment the 11 home-hosted regions (of which 9 are currently open-sea buffer regions) are on a computer, but there is a plan to move them to a Dell Inspiron server in the weeks to come. They are being run by Mat, who was a shard admin during Until Uru.
The 4 hosted regions are run by SimHost, and cost a total of 60 US dollars per month (this includes a discount; normal price is 69.99 US dollars a month). Support is very helpful, friendly and accessible via a ticket system, via live text chat during 'office hours', and in-world.
Up to now, the home-based and hosted regions have been kept separate. Over the next few days, the hosted regions are going to be moved next to the home-based ones, so that avies should be able to travel from one to the other without teleporting, and regions on different hosts should be visible.
SimHost explained that this would probably result in a degradation of performance in the hosted regions. But it strikes me that it could be a very useful experiment to try out -- a mixed method of hosting.
Nalates: Would you like to try putting your home-based region temporarily on the grid? Try coordinates 9498 9501. This should put you to the west of the sea region by Devokan village.
At the moment the 11 home-hosted regions (of which 9 are currently open-sea buffer regions) are on a computer, but there is a plan to move them to a Dell Inspiron server in the weeks to come. They are being run by Mat, who was a shard admin during Until Uru.
The 4 hosted regions are run by SimHost, and cost a total of 60 US dollars per month (this includes a discount; normal price is 69.99 US dollars a month). Support is very helpful, friendly and accessible via a ticket system, via live text chat during 'office hours', and in-world.
Up to now, the home-based and hosted regions have been kept separate. Over the next few days, the hosted regions are going to be moved next to the home-based ones, so that avies should be able to travel from one to the other without teleporting, and regions on different hosts should be visible.
SimHost explained that this would probably result in a degradation of performance in the hosted regions. But it strikes me that it could be a very useful experiment to try out -- a mixed method of hosting.
Nalates: Would you like to try putting your home-based region temporarily on the grid? Try coordinates 9498 9501. This should put you to the west of the sea region by Devokan village.