Second Life Grid Status Reports

[RESOLVED 12:55 AM, 13th May] - We have completed the maintenance ahead of schedule and logins to Second Life are now back to normal and we’re open again.

[UPDATE 12:05 AM, 13th May] Logins are now restricted to employees only, and the upgrade work is underway. We’ll keep you posted!

[UPDATE 22:40 PST] The land store has anticipated the starter’s pistol and begun the scheduled update early. The land store is now offline and will remain so until 6:00AM PDT.

The Operations Team will be working with one of our hardware vendors tonight to install a patch meant to alleviate the periodic loss of functionality in our asset system, such as the one which struck earlier today.

In order to accomplish this, we must briefly close access to Second Life.

At about 11:45pm Pacific this evening, we’ll make an in world announcement and disable logins shortly thereafter. At midnight, we’ll close all remaining resident connections to the grid and begin the installation process. We’re scheduling two hours for this work to allow for thorough testing.

The Land Store and account registration will also be unavailable during the downtime.

We’re painfully aware that this is short notice; however, this upgrade is essential to increasing the reliability of the asset system.

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