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Server Binary.. Why cant we run our own sims?

Neurosis Sin
Registered User
Join date: 5 Sep 2006
Posts: 24
11-16-2006 22:57
Has this ever occured to anyone else?
I run my own Servers for just about everything on dedicated linux boxes.
Couldnt a Sim be ran on our own server thereby alleviating the pain on LL?
Couldnt it still rent its location in the "world" but handle its activity on the server app running on my machine? Using my cpu cycles and my bandwidth.

For anyone who thinks Im talking about hosting a sim on my home computer w/ a cable modem just stop reading now u have no clue what im saying.

Im just saying.. that by allowing a potential SIM-owner to run a server binary on a host machine supplied by them... instead of part of the LL farm... couldnt we drastically reduce the cost of SIM ownership? The only Fee being that of operating said host machine and a payment to LL for them linking our host into the "world"?

I cant be the only person who has thought of this....

Neurosis
Kelly Linden
Linden Developer
Join date: 29 Mar 2004
Posts: 896
11-16-2006 23:30
This has been thought about but it will not be happening at this time. This requires a lot of infrastructure we just do not have and a lot of reworking of our existing code and policies around communication between simulators that are hosted by different sources. And that is just the tip of the iceberg for this pandoras box.

In short, maybe in the distant future but not any time soon.
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