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December 14, 2007

Grid Down 12/11/2007

Posted: 05:31 PM ET

With less than 24 hours notice, Linden Labs announced that SL would be down for four hours starting at 7 am PST, Tuesday, 12/11/2007. They purported to be, "upgrading some databases and adding asset storage capacity", according to their blog (blog.secondlife.com) Fifteen minutes before SL was to re-open, another entry said they needed another hour because "one component of the system update has failed validation testing and must be reverted." An hour passed, and the blog said, "two more hours." After nearly 7 hours, the blog shows no extension notice. At 1:57pm the blog page indicates the support portal is restored and they are aiming for 2:30pm to open. At 2:39 the grid status reported SL was open and the webite reported 83 residents online. At 2:46pm 1,365 residents online and from then until 3:25 the population grew to near normal levels over 39 thousand. Now residents of Second Life know what it's like in Tulsa, Ok in winter. For iReports this is ...

Submitted by Jim Sella

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Kittenanne Mousehold   December 14th, 2007 7:07 pm ET

I'm sure that Jim Sella filed this report either on Monday or on Tuesday. But this is so late in posting, I'm not sure why this was even bothered with at this late a date.
Tateru Nino   December 15th, 2007 1:30 am ET

Incorrect. Linden Lab made the initial announcement with the downtime schedule 4 days in advance, on Friday 7 December.
Kittenanne Mousehold   December 16th, 2007 1:55 pm ET

Then that's worse on how late this was posted.
Jim Sella   December 18th, 2007 3:04 pm ET

I stand corrected: [Originally posted 6 Dec, 3:30 PM Pacific], I must have missed the original posting.

I did submit the story earlier than was posted on this blog. They did go a few days with no postings, but since then have been regular. We will see how it goes after their Tuesday meeting.

Other points in the story are still valid about the unpredictable time the grid was brought back online.
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