In a transfer that guarantees a sooner, smoother, and extra responsive digital world expertise, Wolf Territories Grid has migrated to a brand new server cluster at an information middle in Frankfurt, Germany.
The improve is predicted to considerably improve efficiency and reliability for the grid’s 1000’s of customers, who can now get pleasure from lightning-fast teleports, faster rezzing of objects, and an total extra responsive setting.
The switchover incurred minimal downtime for the grid — simply 14 minutes.
Paul Clevett, often known as Lone Wolf in-world, is the director of Wolf Software program Methods Ltd., the corporate that owns the grid. It was hosted on the Myloc Knowledge Centre in Dusseldorf for the previous three years.
“We had a hodge-podge of servers from Ryzen 5’s to Ryzen 9’s within the outdated cluster that we constructed up over time,” he advised Hypergrid Enterprise. “Plus that information middle had all our servers cut up over totally different networks. What this successfully meant was that the visitors between the servers must route across the information middle. Plus, there was no excessive availability.”
The brand new server cluster boasts a powerful array of {hardware}, together with AMD Ryzen 9 processors with 32 cores, not less than 128GB RAM, and 2TB Server Grade NVMEs in RAID one configuration. There was no value improve for individuals who lease land on the grid.
“We have been a just about lag free grid earlier than, however this takes us to the subsequent degree,” Clevett stated.
Customers have already seen the distinction, with feedback like, “It’s far more wizzy!,” he stated. The enhancements transcend simply decreased lag, with teleports now being almost instantaneous and objects rezzing at a a lot sooner charge, he added.
The grid’s giant map, which beforehand took a while to load regardless of fast-loading tiles, has additionally seen a big enchancment.
“As a result of we now have an enormous map it used to take some time to load it in,” Clevett stated. “You’d click on on a area and it might take a while to carry up the area identify. That’s fully fastened by this improve.”
The migration course of, whereas advanced, was made potential by way of the efforts of the Wolf Territories Grid group, together with grid directors DJ Illusions and Luna Stormfeather, in addition to the tech group comprised of Clevett himself, Busty, and Daja.
“From a technical perspective, it was not straightforward and with out the assistance of Busty and Daja we positively wouldn’t be the place we’re,” stated Clevett. “The important thing actually was ensuring the cluster design was proper and that it met our wants. What we had in our outdated cluster was one thing we type of constructed as we realized.”
The grid additionally now has its personal community within the information middle, he added.
“The whole lot is quicker as a result of we’re not having to route our information spherical the information middle,” he stated. “There are noticeable velocity variations, particularly in heavier areas. This implies the entire grid is method sooner and prepared for the longer term.”
Regardless of all of the enhancements, the price of operating the brand new cluster is about the identical because the outdated one, he stated, though the grid has incurred a big one-time value this month attributable to operating each clusters concurrently through the switch course of.
Clevett stated he’s open to serving to different grids with comparable tasks — even when they could be thought of opponents. He’s assisted different grids with technical points prior to now, he stated, together with offering server sources throughout emergencies and even serving to revive grids that have been getting ready to closure.
“I simply assume we’re higher working collectively on this unbelievable OpenSim mission,” Clevett stated.
Your entire Wolf Territories Grid group, together with the pleasant AI robotic “Bobby,” is worked up to welcome customers to the improved digital house, which is now higher outfitted to deal with the grid’s aim of reaching 100,000 areas and 100,000 registered customers, he added.
Based on Hypergrid Enterprise information, Wolf Territories Grid, based in 2021, surpassed OSgrid in land space in November of final 12 months, changing into the most important grid by land space. It has held that spot ever since.
Wolf Territories has additionally been rising quickly in energetic consumer numbers as properly. On this month’s stats report, it was solely 5 energetic customers behind OSgrid, the most well-liked grid in OpenSim.
The grid had 5,271 energetic customers in March, and the equal of 28,496 normal areas.
Right here at Hypergrid Enterprise, I take advantage of “normal area equivalents” as a measure of land measurement, as an alternative of named areas, as a result of OpenSim permits for areas of varied sizes. So, for instance, in OpenSim, you may have 4 Second Life-sized areas, every with, say, 15,000 prims — or a single two-by-two area with, say, 60,000 prims. From the attitude of a customer to that grid, the two-by-two setup will look the identical as 4 particular person areas, besides that border crossings could be simpler — and it will likely be labeled as a single area on the map. But additionally, I’m the boss right here. If you wish to measure land in another method, begin your personal weblog.
I’m critical, please begin your personal weblog! We don’t have sufficient publications masking OpenSim! I’d like to assist in any method I can, and can run free advertisements for you, and introduce you to all of the grid house owners.
Again to Wolf Territories.
The grid affords areas in four-by-four, eight-by-eight, and 12-by-12 configurations, with a most capability of as much as 1.2 million prims.
“We could go loopy and see how a 32-by-32 performs however that’s for testing,” stated Clevett.
Costs begin at US $25 a month for a four-by-four area — the equal of 16 normal Second Life areas — with as much as 20,000 prims complete. The costs go as much as $76 a month for the 1.2 million prim configuration, and there are reductions for bulk orders.
I simply went and checked the most recent stats. As of this writing, the grid reviews 5,361 energetic customers and 28,512 normal area equivalents. OSgrid, the earlier chief, reviews 5,280 energetic customers and 27,985 normal area equivalents.
So Wolf Territories is now within the lead by each metrics.
