Second Life Secondary Hosting Sites
Today ZDNet Asia announced that Second Life will soon be hosting servers closer to the Asian users. Plans are to find secondary hosts in both Asia and Europe, according to Cory Ondrejka.
Where all will Linden Servers end up?
The Linden Lab CTO, speaking in the Singapore iX conference, spoke about the majority of the numbers of residents of Second Life being from outside the United States and “So the vast majority of our usage is overseas [and] because of that, we need to start hosting servers in foreign markets,” he revealed.
This isn’t going to create a different Second Life, parts of the virtual world will be ‘closer’ instead to the residents. This would address any latency issues, so users in this part of the world will not experience a time lag–especially when the network is congested–when they access Second Life’s server infrastructure
For us, being able to deploy servers both to Europe and Asia is a critical next step for us. We have some architectural changes we need to make in order to allow that, but we’re working on that right now.
What do you think? Will Linden Lab host servers around the world? Or Will they just host to help control latency until open sourcing the server code?
June 21st, 2007 • 
Weirdharold • 
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comment | June 21, 2007 at 06:48 | individual comment-link
Can’t wait. I think they’ll do both. Remember the money is made with real estate (servers)… LL has no reason to let the land they’ve been providing go. New servers by 3rd parties (open source) will supplement, not replace the LL infrastructure.