Saturday @ 1PM - Crash our cloud party

Quoting US Comedian Lewis Black; "Why would you need fire fighters? It's much more fun to see the thing burn down!".

Come join the SpotON3D Team for a 'Crash our cloud' party, where we'll be exploring the absolute limits of SpotON3D's cloud serviced sims. Bring along friends and appropriate attributes like evil-grin-gestures, rain-dance-animations and survival packages with hard hats and parachutes, and hop on to our cloud-serviced region showing off your creative solutions to abuse our cloud server.

All this destructive fun will be taking place Saturday at 1PM SLT/PST on the SpotON3D-grid. If you haven't got a SpotON3D account yet, just mail our team of cloud code monkeys at cloud@spoton3d.com and we'll make sure that you're all ready to crash a cloud when the event starts.

See you there!

Come crash our cloud Xmas party with Anek Fuchs!

Just a quick reminder to all of those that like to have their socks rocked off - In true rock'n'roll spirit we'll have a big Xmas party today where we'll try to tear down the venue. How fun is that?

While the brave Anek Fuchs is giving the best of himself of stage, from 2 till 3pm pacific time today, we're going to try to crash the cloud server the performance is on. Come dance, have fun and a good laugh with all of the SpotOn3D® users while we're pushing our cloud driven Web Worlds™ to their limits.

Log into your SpotOn3D® account - or mail Tessa at tessa@spoton3d.com for a free, fully functional, disposable account. Download the viewer at https://spoton3d.com/pages/downloads - or just log into your SpotOn3D® account.

For all info on how, what and why - refer to yesterday's post at http://spoton3d.blogspot.com/2010/12/crash-my-cloud-opensim-stress-test.html

Tech Highlight: Cloud-driven services

Welcome to SpotON3D’s Tech Highlight, a series of informative blogs designed to keep you in the loop on the latest technological advances SpotON3D has engineered.

Today, we’ll be covering the SpotON3D Boost Cloud™ service, an exciting new option that enables any region renter ramp up the power on their regions to support 50 or even 100 users. And after we upgrade our servers to the 0.7.1 server side version of OpenSim we should see additional concurrency levels possible, with expectations of up to 200 users. These advances promise to reach a much larger audience that has asked for higher levels of service and a more stable experience. So, let’s break it down.

Every region in one of our Web Worlds™ has the option to turn on the Boost Cloud™ service for a self-determined time period. it’s available on demand for just $2.99/hr for up to 50 people and $4.99/hr for up to 100. This takes your region off the shared Lite Use grid server, and places it on its own secure dedicated cloud virtual server. This means your region is suddenly hosted by a ton more muscle, enough to host 50 or more users simultaneously for a lag free experience. Wanna pipe in some music? No problem. It comes Shoutcast® capable. Want to lock it down to a select group of people? You’ve to that too, and not just from a region security level. But at the front door of the cloud server too. And with your region being hosted on a ocean of other virtual cloud servers on the huge Amazon® Cloud Network you’re about as incognito as you can get – everything you’d need to throw a great party, event, class or training webinar and you didn’t have to pay $300 bucks a month to get it. You say a few hours isn’t enough? Need a Boost Cloud instance for a 24-72 hour event? We’ve got bulk rates for such heavy hitting needs. Just email us at boostcloud@spoton3d.com or give us a call us at 330-776-8663 to get a quote.

Next up on SpotON3D’s Tech Highlight: HotSwap Scenes™ - How these same Boost Cloud™ servers get jacked up with unique whole region builds at the touch of your mouse – without loosing your own region’s setup!

Interested in getting your own regions up and running in one of our Web Worlds™? Then don't forget about SpotOn3D's land rush action. Check out http://land.veesome.com for all information, or contact us today to find out all about it!