Part of our upgrade recently was also an aim for a bit more transparency. As such two new pages have gone up regarding the technology the grid uses and the brand spankin' new network statistics page For those who love data and how pretty it can be this page should be right up your alley. Expect these pages to expand in the future. ...

NEW BINARY IS AVAILABLE - Download the binary from the normal location (see Get Land - Self Hosted)
MAKE AN OAR BACKUP BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING
Your best option is to unpack the binary to a new folder and copy your Region.ini file in. You can copy your opensim.db file (your region contents) but you are better off saving an OAR from your original region and restoring i...

We are moving the grid services onto more reliable hardware. This will help with rezzing, mostly, but also will help with lots of other performance related issues that we have had reported recently. However in order to do this we have to shut down the asset server and content distribution system to move the assets to a new server.
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Tonight, one of our hosts is down. We are looking into it, but for now, the ocean, free estates, and a number of private regions is down. We are sorry for the inconvenience. [UPDATE] It is back up now. Thanks for your patience. ...