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 a knowledge heart 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 general 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 Techniques Ltd., the corporate that owns the grid. It was hosted on the Myloc Knowledge 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 previous cluster that we constructed up through the years,” he instructed Hypergrid Enterprise. “Plus that information heart 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 information 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, a minimum of 128GB RAM, and 2TB Server Grade NVMEs in RAID one configuration. There was no worth improve for individuals who lease land on the grid.

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

Customers have already observed the distinction, with feedback like, “It’s rather more wizzy!,” he mentioned. The enhancements transcend simply decreased lag, with teleports now being almost instantaneous and objects rezzing at a a lot quicker charge, 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 an enormous map it used to take some time to load it in,” Clevett mentioned. “You’d click on on a area and it could take a while to carry up the area title. That’s utterly mounted by this improve.”

The migration course of, whereas advanced, was made attainable by way of 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 simple 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 previous cluster was one thing we sort of constructed as we realized.”

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

Clevett mentioned he’s open to serving to different grids with comparable tasks — even when they is perhaps thought-about rivals. He’s assisted different grids with technical points up to now, he mentioned, together with offering server sources throughout emergencies and even serving to revive grids that have been on the point of closure.

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

The complete Wolf Territories Grid group, together with the pleasant AI robotic “Bobby,” is happy 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.

Based on Hypergrid Enterprise information, 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 energetic person numbers as nicely. On this month’s stats report, it was solely 5 energetic customers behind OSgrid, the most well-liked grid in OpenSim.

The grid had 5,271 energetic customers in March, and the equal of 28,496 customary areas.

Right here at Hypergrid Enterprise, I take advantage of “customary area equivalents” as a measure of land measurement, as a substitute of named areas, as a result of OpenSim permits for areas of assorted 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 it is going to 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 means, 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 means I can, and can run free advertisements for you, and introduce you to all of the grid homeowners.

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 could 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 customary 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 most recent stats. As of this writing, the grid experiences 5,361 energetic customers and 28,512 customary area equivalents. OSgrid, the earlier chief, experiences 5,280 energetic customers and 27,985 customary area equivalents.

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