Comments on: OSGrid loses regions, other grids continue to grow http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2010/07/osgrid-loses-regions-other-grid-continue-to-grow/ THE MAGAZINE FOR ENTERPRISE USERS OF VIRTUAL WORLDS Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:40:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Maria Korolov http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2010/07/osgrid-loses-regions-other-grid-continue-to-grow/comment-page-1/#comment-4964 Maria Korolov Sat, 31 Jul 2010 23:23:49 +0000 http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/?p=34337#comment-4964 Ener -- There are a few other folks you can hire to set you up with Cari.net. Melanie Thielker of 3D Hosting and Kai Ludwig of TalentRaspel can probably also do this for you, as well as Snoopy Pfeffer of Dreamland Metaverse. I don't know if they can get you the same kind of bulk discount as Adam Frisby of SimHost can, though. He's got a good relationship with Cari.net, as does OSGrid as a whole. I'm a big fan of OSGrid, but wary of putting mission-critical regions on there -- you're dependent on their databases for your assets and inventory, and get tied to their upgrade cycles. Having your own grid (or mini-grid) puts you in control of both. I'm seeing some folks setting up their private grids, and then also putting up a region on OSGrid which they use to promote their grid, put up a hypergate and otherwise make it easy and attractive for people to come visit via the hypergrid. -- Maria Ener –

There are a few other folks you can hire to set you up with Cari.net.

Melanie Thielker of 3D Hosting and Kai Ludwig of TalentRaspel can probably also do this for you, as well as Snoopy Pfeffer of Dreamland Metaverse.

I don't know if they can get you the same kind of bulk discount as Adam Frisby of SimHost can, though. He's got a good relationship with Cari.net, as does OSGrid as a whole.

I'm a big fan of OSGrid, but wary of putting mission-critical regions on there — you're dependent on their databases for your assets and inventory, and get tied to their upgrade cycles.

Having your own grid (or mini-grid) puts you in control of both. I'm seeing some folks setting up their private grids, and then also putting up a region on OSGrid which they use to promote their grid, put up a hypergate and otherwise make it easy and attractive for people to come visit via the hypergrid.

– Maria

]]> By: Ener Hax http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2010/07/osgrid-loses-regions-other-grid-continue-to-grow/comment-page-1/#comment-4962 Ener Hax Sat, 31 Jul 2010 23:03:45 +0000 http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/?p=34337#comment-4962 to add to my question above - after doing some leg work and my other half talking with Justin Clark-Casey here is what we have concluded first JCC is booked till early next year, so getting Cari.net is out of the picture (an option we also entertained was hiring someone's talented daughter to install OS for us) but, even with Cari, it seems hard to beat simhost's price. they also run on Cari.net and what would cost us $200 is about $179 with them with the HGB discount btw, Cari.net seems to have an attractive discount for people using them for OSGrid deployments to add to my question above – after doing some leg work and my other half talking with Justin Clark-Casey here is what we have concluded

first JCC is booked till early next year, so getting Cari.net is out of the picture (an option we also entertained was hiring someone's talented daughter to install OS for us)

but, even with Cari, it seems hard to beat simhost's price. they also run on Cari.net and what would cost us $200 is about $179 with them with the HGB discount

btw, Cari.net seems to have an attractive discount for people using them for OSGrid deployments

]]> By: Ener Hax http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2010/07/osgrid-loses-regions-other-grid-continue-to-grow/comment-page-1/#comment-4953 Ener Hax Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:32:55 +0000 http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/?p=34337#comment-4953 interesting on the summer cleaning. what do you think of installing OpenSim on Cari.net? say on dedicated server? for $200 a month you can get 4 cores, 4 GB RAM, and 250 GB disk space i don't know enough on the tech side to assess that properly. i just know from our RG server that RAM seems the first to get eaten up. CPU always stays low (under 10% except on sim restarts) for us, but we only have 4 or 5 people max at one time are there other hosts (not OpenSim hosts) that would be similar to a dedicated server like Cari.net has? (i don't think our fibre optic line would support many concurrent users, thus the interest in some commercial server option) interesting on the summer cleaning. what do you think of installing OpenSim on Cari.net? say on dedicated server? for $200 a month you can get 4 cores, 4 GB RAM, and 250 GB disk space

i don't know enough on the tech side to assess that properly. i just know from our RG server that RAM seems the first to get eaten up. CPU always stays low (under 10% except on sim restarts) for us, but we only have 4 or 5 people max at one time

are there other hosts (not OpenSim hosts) that would be similar to a dedicated server like Cari.net has? (i don't think our fibre optic line would support many concurrent users, thus the interest in some commercial server option)

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