Wolf Territories gets better hosting, now top grid by size and users – Hypergrid Business

In a transfer that guarantees a quicker, smoother, and extra responsive digital world expertise, Wolf Territories Grid has migrated to a brand new server cluster at an information middle in Frankfurt, Germany.

The improve is predicted to considerably improve efficiency and reliability for the grid’s hundreds of customers, who can now take pleasure in lightning-fast teleports, faster rezzing of objects, and an total extra responsive setting.

The switchover incurred minimal downtime for the grid — simply 14 minutes.

Paul Clevett, also called Lone Wolf in-world, is the director of Wolf Software program Methods 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“We had a hodge-podge of servers from Ryzen 5’s to Ryzen 9’s within the outdated cluster that we constructed up over time,” he advised Hypergrid Enterprise. “Plus that knowledge middle had all our servers cut up over totally different networks. What this successfully meant was that the visitors between the servers must route across the knowledge middle. 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, at the very least 128GB RAM, and 2TB Server Grade NVMEs in RAID one configuration. There was no worth enhance for individuals who lease land on the grid.

“We had been a just about lag free grid earlier than, however this takes us to the following stage,” Clevett mentioned.

Customers have already seen the distinction, with feedback like, “It’s rather more wizzy!,” he mentioned. The enhancements transcend simply lowered lag, with teleports now being almost instantaneous and objects rezzing at a a lot quicker price, he added.

The grid’s giant map, which beforehand took a while to load regardless of fast-loading tiles, has additionally seen a major enchancment.

“As a result of we’ve got an enormous map it used to take some time to load it in,” Clevett mentioned. “You’d click on on a area and it might take a while to carry up the area identify. That’s utterly fastened by this improve.”

The migration course of, whereas advanced, was made potential via the efforts of the Wolf Territories Grid group, together with grid directors DJ Illusions and Luna Stormfeather, in addition to the tech group comprised of Clevett himself, Busty, and Daja.

“From a technical perspective, it was not straightforward and with out the assistance of Busty and Daja we undoubtedly wouldn’t be the place we’re,” mentioned 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 form of constructed as we discovered.”

Regardless of all of the enhancements, the price of working the brand new cluster is about the identical because the outdated one, he mentioned, though the grid has incurred a big one-time value this month as a result of working each clusters concurrently through the switch course of.

Clevett mentioned he’s open to serving to different grids with related tasks — even when they may be thought of opponents. He’s assisted different grids with technical points prior to now, he mentioned, together with offering server sources throughout emergencies and even serving to revive grids that had been getting ready to closure.

“I simply suppose we’re higher working collectively on this unimaginable OpenSim undertaking,” Clevett mentioned.

All the Wolf Territories Grid group, together with the pleasant AI robotic “Bobby,” is worked up to welcome customers to the improved digital area, which is now higher outfitted to deal with the grid’s aim 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 most important grid by land space. It has held that spot ever since.

Wolf Territories has additionally been rising quickly in lively consumer numbers as properly. 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 commonplace areas.

Right here at Hypergrid Enterprise, I take advantage of “commonplace area equivalents” as a measure of land dimension, as an alternative of named areas, as a result of OpenSim permits for areas of assorted sizes. So, for instance, in OpenSim, you’ll be able to 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 it is going to be labeled as a single area on the map. But in addition, I’m the boss right here. If you wish to measure land in another method, begin your personal weblog.

I’m severe, please begin your personal weblog! We don’t have sufficient publications overlaying OpenSim! I’d like to assist in any method 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 provides 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,” mentioned Clevett.

Costs begin at US $25 a month for a four-by-four area — the equal of 16 commonplace Second Life areas — with as much as 20,000 prims complete. 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 newest stats. As of this writing, the grid reviews 5,361 lively customers and 28,512 commonplace area equivalents. OSgrid, the earlier chief, reviews 5,280 lively customers and 27,985 commonplace area equivalents.

So Wolf Territories is now within the lead by each metrics.