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Arcadia Shop will remain closed until the OSG servers upgrade is complete.
Here's the official notification for if you missed it
https://www.osgrid.online/disruptions-downtime/downtime/
See you all at it's return!
Here's the official notification for if you missed it
https://www.osgrid.online/disruptions-downtime/downtime/
See you all at it's return!
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Guys, you're so busy talking about WT that you're glossing over the fact OSG came back 24 hours before they said they would and literally 10x faster than before.
While WT can be amazing and all, circlejerking about it in the post of another grid is of bad taste.
Do your own post and go ahead, I'm sure many other users will join you.
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While WT can be amazing and all, circlejerking about it in the post of another grid is of bad taste.
Do your own post and go ahead, I'm sure many other users will join you.
After being on different grids, I have come back to wolf territories, I am happy to pay, plus we will be offering free homes in the end to people, but thats not the point, In the last year I have been part of or watched other grids constantly go off line, not for hours , days, or, even week, but months, my last grid i was on, went off, we were not allowed to build , rez because of the corruption to the assists. even now its back up , most of the items are corrupt. Wolfs has had its issues but it is also one of the most consistent grids, Notifications if regions are going to be updated, access to our own dashboards, and Wolf is always available to help, and not shy in asking others either, Maybe its because I am autistic too that I get where he is coming from. I don't understand it all, with all the servers backups etc but what I have witnessed is a grid that is consistent in its reliability and in this day and age of hackers, back up , lots of servers with back up, good software, seems to me to be the answer. I am glad I have taken the risk and come back.
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One of the very things I did first before moving here was check WT's down time and looked for complaints about such. Couldn't find any significant down time and NO complaints about the grid. I decided that day this is where I would hang my virtual hat. And of course asking Lone Wolf a billion tech questions too. He had the right answers for me. Best decision ever.
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redundant is nice but with some risk too ;) you have to see the pros and cons I prefer a wasted day to seeing everything hacked.
even if the redundancy is on a local IP basis at the datacenter I would never trust it, the redundancy yes if you are the master of the network and the owner of it
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even if the redundancy is on a local IP basis at the datacenter I would never trust it, the redundancy yes if you are the master of the network and the owner of it
I think that's an interesting point - but clustering resources like we do is more about performance and load balancing than being hacked. Honestly, I don't think because a service has down time it's more secure than one that is in a resource sharing situation. But I do get your point, for instance, if you had a mariadb cluster that got hacked, the data would be corrupted across all of the cluster - but, that's why we keep backups. Having a database cluster for instance allows us to load balance request across the cluster which provides latency on the databases and removes lag.
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I'm so glad Wolf Territories uses redundant servers. Servers can be swapped and replaced on the fly so that we never go down for any reason
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In fact we just upgraded a regions server from a ryzen 5 to a ryzen 9 server - the only disruption was the restarting of regions, we have a system where when the region is moved, the users get a notice, then it starts on the new server. To do database server upgrades for instance we just add the new server to the cluster. Our assets are stored on Cloudflare R2 cloud storage which gives us about 10.2 petabytes of available space over masses of servers. Although we use a custom asset service. We also use argo cloud routing that basically routes some of the traffic from the clients through a local infrastructure node, meaning a fast and safer way of getting to our grid, wherever you are in the world.
We still take backups but they are like a last resort. We'd have to have a complete meltdown at the data centre and even then our backups are in Holland, with the servers are in Germany.
Our region servers are completely redundant, one failed a few months ago, we just get a new server from the datacentre and add it to our proxmox cluster and then fire up the server and run one script to build it from an lxc container. The same for all of our services, multiple copies on multiple servers - even our robust servers we have 40 (30 live and 10 on standby) running on different servers.
It is designed to support hundreds of thousands of users being completely expandable just by adding more resources as needed.
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We still take backups but they are like a last resort. We'd have to have a complete meltdown at the data centre and even then our backups are in Holland, with the servers are in Germany.
Our region servers are completely redundant, one failed a few months ago, we just get a new server from the datacentre and add it to our proxmox cluster and then fire up the server and run one script to build it from an lxc container. The same for all of our services, multiple copies on multiple servers - even our robust servers we have 40 (30 live and 10 on standby) running on different servers.
It is designed to support hundreds of thousands of users being completely expandable just by adding more resources as needed.
@lone wolf Just so that everyone is aware, how often do hackers attempt to get into Wolf Grid servers and how do you handle it?
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Okay so its basically 24 hours a day 7 days a week. We use a number of techniques including honeypot servers to gather hackers data and block them dynamically. Plus we are using cloudflare services to bock ddos attacks where we can.
It just doesn't stop.
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It just doesn't stop.
@Luna: Just to clarify the differences. OsGrid SIMS you can get easy for free and they lives from donations. Wolf earns from rentals.
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I've been a paying tenant on Wolf Grid for 2 years and happy to do so. There are tools and perks that are simply not anywhere else and we have no downtime, planned or otherwise
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True, but I'll take the redundant tech any day. That puts WTG much closer in terms of reliability to SL... or maybe surpassing SL IMV! BTW Wolf also takes donations. I've donated some of my hard earned RL USD a few times already since I joined WTG about ten months ago. :)
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TBH You can spend a fortune on servers and build a terrible system. It's not about the money. I have autism and I just got obsessed with seeing what was possible with an enterprise infrastructure.
it's not all me though - the guys at OpenSim NGC have been amazing. There's so many who have helped contribute. Especially the community that has grown out of this!
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it's not all me though - the guys at OpenSim NGC have been amazing. There's so many who have helped contribute. Especially the community that has grown out of this!
That wasn't against you Wolf. I just wanted to make it clear, after OsGrid is blasphemed, that they live from donations. Of course, good and even more so redundant hardware also costs "some" money.
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