A month-to-month social occasion on Wolf Territories Grid. (Picture courtesy Wolf Territories Grid.)
In a transfer that guarantees a sooner, smoother, and extra responsive digital world expertise, Wolf Territories Grid has migrated to a brand new server cluster at an information heart in Frankfurt, Germany.
The improve is predicted to considerably improve efficiency and reliability for the grid’s hundreds of customers, who can now get pleasure from lightning-fast teleports, faster rezzing of objects, and an general extra responsive surroundings.
The switchover incurred minimal downtime for the grid — simply 14 minutes.
Paul Clevett, often known as Lone Wolf in-world, is the director of Wolf Software program Programs Ltd., the corporate that owns the grid. It was hosted on the Myloc Information Centre in Dusseldorf for the previous three years.
“We had a hodge-podge of servers from Ryzen 5’s to Ryzen 9’s within the outdated cluster that we constructed up over time,” he informed Hypergrid Enterprise. “Plus that knowledge heart had all our servers cut up over completely different networks. What this successfully meant was that the visitors between the servers must route across the knowledge heart. Plus, there was no excessive availability.”
The brand new server cluster boasts a formidable array of {hardware}, together with AMD Ryzen 9 processors with 32 cores, not less than 128GB RAM, and 2TB Server Grade NVMEs in RAID one configuration. There was no value enhance for individuals who hire land on the grid.
“We had been a just about lag free grid earlier than, however this takes us to the following degree,” Clevett stated.
Customers have already observed the distinction, with feedback like, “It’s way more wizzy!,” he stated. The enhancements transcend simply diminished lag, with teleports now being almost instantaneous and objects rezzing at a a lot sooner price, he added.
The grid’s giant map, which beforehand took a while to load regardless of fast-loading tiles, has additionally seen a big enchancment.
“As a result of we now have an enormous map it used to take some time to load it in,” Clevett stated. “You’d click on on a area and it could take a while to carry up the area identify. That’s utterly mounted by this improve.”
The migration course of, whereas advanced, was made doable by the efforts of the Wolf Territories Grid crew, together with grid directors DJ Illusions and Luna Stormfeather, in addition to the tech crew comprised of Clevett himself, Busty, and Daja.
“From a technical perspective, it was not simple and with out the assistance of Busty and Daja we undoubtedly wouldn’t be the place we’re,” stated Clevett. “The important thing actually was ensuring the cluster design was proper and that it met our wants. What we had in our outdated cluster was one thing we sort of constructed as we discovered.”
The grid additionally now has its personal community within the knowledge heart, he added.
“All the pieces is quicker as a result of we’re not having to route our knowledge spherical the info heart,” he stated. “There are noticeable pace variations, particularly in heavier areas. This implies the entire grid is manner sooner and prepared for the longer term.”
Regardless of all of the enhancements, the price of operating the brand new cluster is about the identical because the outdated one, he stated, though the grid has incurred a big one-time price this month resulting from operating each clusters concurrently throughout the switch course of.
Clevett stated he’s open to serving to different grids with related initiatives — even when they is likely to be thought of opponents. He’s assisted different grids with technical points prior to now, he stated, together with offering server assets throughout emergencies and even serving to revive grids that had been getting ready to closure.
“I simply assume we’re higher working collectively on this unbelievable OpenSim undertaking,” Clevett stated.
Your entire Wolf Territories Grid crew, together with the pleasant AI robotic “Bobby,” is happy to welcome customers to the improved digital house, which is now higher outfitted to deal with the grid’s objective of reaching 100,000 areas and 100,000 registered customers, he added.
In response to Hypergrid Enterprise knowledge, Wolf Territories Grid, based in 2021, surpassed OSgrid in land space in November of final 12 months, changing into the largest grid by land space. It has held that spot ever since.
Wolf Territories has additionally been rising quickly in lively consumer numbers as effectively. On this month’s stats report, it was solely 5 lively customers behind OSgrid, the most well-liked grid in OpenSim.
The grid had 5,271 lively customers in March, and the equal of 28,496 customary areas.
Right here at Hypergrid Enterprise, I exploit “customary area equivalents” as a measure of land measurement, as a substitute of named areas, as a result of OpenSim permits for areas of varied sizes. So, for instance, in OpenSim, you may have 4 Second Life-sized areas, every with, say, 15,000 prims — or a single two-by-two area with, say, 60,000 prims. From the attitude of a customer to that grid, the two-by-two setup will look the identical as 4 particular person areas, besides that border crossings can be simpler — and will probably be labeled as a single area on the map. But additionally, I’m the boss right here. If you wish to measure land in another manner, begin your individual weblog.
I’m critical, please begin your individual weblog! We don’t have sufficient publications protecting OpenSim! I’d like to assist in any manner I can, and can run free advertisements for you, and introduce you to all of the grid house owners.
Again to Wolf Territories.
The grid presents areas in four-by-four, eight-by-eight, and 12-by-12 configurations, with a most capability of as much as 1.2 million prims.
“We might go loopy and see how a 32-by-32 performs however that’s for testing,” stated Clevett.
Prices start at US $25 a month for a four-by-four area — the equal of 16 customary Second Life areas — with as much as 20,000 prims whole. The costs go as much as $76 a month for the 1.2 million prim configuration, and there are reductions for bulk orders.
I simply went and checked the most recent stats. As of this writing, the grid reviews 5,361 lively customers and 28,512 customary area equivalents. OSgrid, the earlier chief, reviews 5,280 lively customers and 27,985 customary area equivalents.
So Wolf Territories is now within the lead by each metrics.
