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  1. minor point on "prims are cheap" – unfortunately it's not the disk space that is the limiting factor. disk space is used but typically most commercial servers have at least 500 gig HDs which is huge for OpenSim

    prims live in RAM also and that will choke it down before disk space will and RAM is not cheap yet but getting less expensive slowly

    1. jigs@westernprairie.net'

      True, though I have had 10 regions running on a used Dell GX520, XP pro,  with just 2 mb of ram and using sqLITE even!
      Currently I have 6 regions on 2 of those Dells, and one of the regions has 12,000 prims, another on the same machine has 5,000 and the 3rd has about 2,000

      I am however switching out the Dell running the 3 heaviest regions to a Dell Precision Work Station dual core with 8gb of ram, and a WD caviar 500gb drive with 16mb of buffer, not because anything has slowed down, but because the GX520 is so limited and the space for 2 drives only allows one SATA the other is cabled for an EIDE drive.

      Its not just prims, but scripts too count, most of my regions are very light on scripts- the region with 12,000 prims has only 102 scripts and most of them are touch scripts.

      (photo) “Great Hall”, University of Idaho building- OSgrid “wolf reference library” region

  2. If you head to OSgrid in opensim to build, check out the Opensim Builders Alliance. This is a group we have started to help people building in OSgrid. We hope it helps people get building there.

  3. You Fail to Mention The Grids offering Free Regions, Why pay 20 cents a hour and waiting on loading time when your sim or region is always online and best of all Free…

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    Paco — There are tradeoffs. Free regions often have a catch — a limit on the number of users, maybe, or limited prims, or limit on scripts, or only available for a limited number of months. Or you can only get a parcel, not a full region. Or no OAR exports. Or max one free region per customer. (Each grid has different limitations.)

    As a general rule of thumb, you get what you pay for.

    For example, if you want to have 100 regions — for example, different versions of your builds, where you would then sell the OAR files to your corporate customers — then Kitely is a great deal. You're only paying for the time you spend in-world, and you can have your assistants working with you, and your customers can come and visit the regions to get a preview, then you export the OAR and sell it to them.

    If you want to have a region that you plan to use for a popular club, you're better off with an always-on region from a traditional vendor, on a high-traffic grid. If you want to have a store, and want to make sure your content is protected, you're best off on a closed commercial grid — and pay for a region that can handle all your prims and customer traffic.

    Meanwhile, you have a 100% free region, in unlimited quantities, on your home computer — but you can only get visitors if you know how to configure your ports and routers, and at most you'll be able to get a handful of visitors over typical consumer broadband connections.

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