On 9/30/2010 3:45 PM, Kesick, Nicholas Charles wrote:
It seems you know very little about Windows Server operations, and
who's to say Microsoft would come in and change all of the underlying
OSes?
I wouldn't recommend runing LINUX with Opensim on anything less than
4GB (production), and Windows Server Core is a very robust and light
system, of which I would still run on 4GB. Server Core weighs less on
my server than Fedora or Ubuntu Server.
But consider first, the advantage of connection speeds that would be
available to Second Life with Microsoft as the owner. Right now
Linden Labs has been building server centers and their fiber "LL
Net". Now Micorosft walks in. Here's 400x the server power with
datacenters in many states, and 10000x the bandwidth around the world.
Tada! Lag time between client and server gone, especially with
international users.
Microsoft also has the assets to help the education sector, which has
been having more and more trouble staying with Second Life because of
a lack of support.
So, don't just write it off because of the OS. Remember the other
assets they have, like internet connections and good management skills.
- Nicholas Kesick
Now at [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>!
Oh, I do, and I shall. I managed a Windows Server 2003-based Active
Directory network for the City, and then had my own Win Serv 2003 Active
Directory network at home while first setting up my application hosting
service. Despite having a hardware firewall and allowing automatic
updates, I had to clear out worms every 3 weeks and was on the edge of
buying more RAM. I have since switched to Linux-based hosting and have
never looked back.
And I have successfully run OpenSim on three 1GB RAM Pentium 4 @
3.0GHz. I ran two regions each, yes, but sacrificing quantity for
quality is a lot cheaper than shelling out for new servers.
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