Online Provisionally
Osgrid is back online provisionally. It’s possible that certain assets may become unavailable for a while when the conversion process runs across them. You are able to use the grid and build, new assets will not be affected. Due to the back end team doing their database-voodoo the cluster now has enough “breathing space” to…
Assets and Daemons
We’re currently in Maintenance mode on OSgrid. This means the grid is offline. Long technical story short, our storage cluster was seemingly running out of space. Our cluster uses ceph. This is the object storage daemon for the Ceph distributed file system. It manages data on local storage with redundancy and provides access to that…
OSgrid status update
Past few months the OSG team has been working on a variety of things. So we figured to give you a small update on the grid status. For all users, and our volunteer admin teams convenience, a support ticket system has been implemented. As currently most of the “offline” request came in randomly via a…
Vivox Outage resolved
Despite us fearing the free voice service to already have disappeared, Vivox had an outage and seems to be back online. The server that is used for open simulator voice seems to be available again. This does however change nothing about their earlier communications regarding their intentions with this service. We still expect the service…
Vivox Voice
It’s 2024 and it looks like Vivox finally discontinued it’s free opensimulator voice services, as they have been warning us about for over 2 years. Vivox put out an end of service announcement in 2021, they retired signing up in 2023, and for it seems, now finally in 2024 they took the depreciated service offline.…
Unscheduled maintenance
As you might have seen the grid is currently offline due to unscheduled maintenance. Our web host has identified an issue, and is swapping out some switches in our rack to fix it. To prevent damages to assets or your new builds, or risking changes from not being properly stored, we decided to take assets…