Laurent Laborde wrote: > Linden Lab will expand the back-end for its Second Life virtual world > to the East Coast, adding server infrastructure at the NAP of the > Capital Region, a large data center operated by Terremark Worldwide in > Culpeper, Virginia. The colocation agreement will help Second Life > extend its 3D virtual world environment to support additional users. > Read more at : > http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/05/18/second-life-adds-east-coast-servers/ > > Oh well... *sigh* > Still not in Europe ... *whine* > > The bad latency (i have >200ms on SL sim from france, with a fiber > optic line at home) is *really* a user experience killer :/ > > I can't speak to business decisions, however there are technical hurdles to overcome before we can handle the kind of latency you describe within our own infrastructure. There is a lot of communication that happens between hosts within our system - database access, asset system access, sim to sim communication just for starters. I agree 200ms pings suck, I'm totally with you. We even have offices in the UK, we know. It just isn't as simple as putting a few computers on that side of the ocean, unfortunately.
As Ordinal says though, we are getting closer. :) /me keeps his fingers crossed. - Kelly _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
