| JoshBoam✦ 23 minutes ago 🚀 H4OS PRODUCTION DEPLOYMENT BEGINS TOMORROW After a long development cycle, extensive testing, rebuilding, hardening, and preparing the system for real production use, we’re finally ready to begin rolling out the new H4OS Grid Management System. Our first production grid migration begins tomorro |
| JoshBoam✦ 23 minutes ago 🌐 What H4OS Brings to Region Owners Region owners will have a modern everyday web panel where they can manage their regions without needing server access. ✅ Start regions ✅ Safe Stop operations ✅ Restart regions ✅ Live OpenSim console progress windows ✅ Automatic startup verification ✅ Detection |
| JoshBoam✦ 23 minutes ago 🛡️ H4OS Guardian One of the largest changes is the introduction of the H4OS Guardian management system. Guardian becomes responsible for the desired state and lifecycle of regions rather than relying on older methods that simply watch for an OpenSim executable. Guardian can track: ✅ Region star |
| JoshBoam✦ 24 minutes ago 🖥️ Live Start / Stop / Restart Consoles Both region owners and administrators can watch OpenSim activity directly through the website. Start, Stop, and Restart operations provide rolling read-only console output. You can close the progress window at any time without stopping or cancelling the ac |
| JoshBoam✦ 24 minutes ago 🧭 Deployment, Migration & Recovery H4OS is designed for real production grids, including environments that already have regions running across multiple servers. The system includes: ✅ Region placement ✅ Multi-server deployment ✅ Offline-server-safe placement ✅ Region migration ✅ Existing region |
| JoshBoam✦ 24 minutes ago 📅 DEPLOYMENT SCHEDULING We currently have more than 14 grids that need to be migrated, and several of those grids operate across multiple Region Servers. Because of the size of this rollout, we are not going to rush from one grid directly into the next. Our plan is to give each grid at least a f |
| JoshBoam✦ 24 minutes ago 🗓️ REQUEST A DEPLOYMENT TIME THAT WORKS FOR YOU As we work through the deployment list, you can request a date and time that works best for your grid. If you have events, parties, scheduled meetings, rentals, weddings, roleplay events, concerts, or anything else coming up, please get with me befo |
| JoshBoam✦ 24 minutes ago ⏱️ EXPECTED DOWNTIME Downtime will vary significantly depending on the grid. A small/simple installation may move very quickly. A larger grid with multiple Region Servers, many regions, existing ROBUST/Money services, older RestartMe configurations, asset storage, or additional infrastructure wil |
| JoshBoam✦ 24 minutes ago ⚠️ THIS IS A MAJOR MIGRATION I want everyone to understand that this is one of the largest infrastructure changes we have made. Depending on the grid, we may be changing or migrating: • Website management • Region control • Guardian services • RestartMe ownership • Windows scheduled tasks • Regio |
| JoshBoam✦ 25 minutes ago 📚 New Documentation A completely rebuilt H4OS documentation set has also been created covering: 📘 Everyday Region Owners 📘 Grid Administrators 📘 Existing Production Grid Migration 📘 Fresh Grid Installation 📘 Server Template Creation 📘 Owner / Operator Deployment Procedures 📘 Quick Installa |
| JoshBoam✦ 25 minutes ago 🔥 The first production migration begins tomorrow evening. After that, we will begin working through the remaining grids one at a time. If you already know you have important plans coming up, please message me and tell me what days or times would work best for your migration. We'll put you on the |
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