New Price Structure for Kitely. A really sweet spot
"We intend to be the market leader in value for money (price/performance in regards to multiple criteria, including the hardware resources we provide each world, the virtual world architecture we use, add-value features, customer support, ease-of-use, etc.)"--Kitely
- Sweet spot: $20/month*: 512x512 sim, 60K prims, 40 avatars
- 60% Off Large Worlds, and Dedicated Memory Guarantee
- Other options: 1. Good if you want lots of space. 2. You can't be serious.
- *Ok, I'm a nickel off.
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News and Notes
- Hypergate WIP Show Next show: June 14, noon PacificTime
- Roxy Roller: Next Show: Tues 6/16, 11 am Pacific time
- grid.kitely.com:8002:Cookie II
- 11 am Matthew Broyles; Noon, Joe Rizzo
- Win A Fellowship to Visit UWA in RL Deadline: June 30
- Craft World hosts photography competition Deadline June 16
- Scroll down for News, Notes, and Info
- Scripters, G+ community: OpenSim Scripters
- OpenSimWorld: HyperGrid Destinations Directory
- Calendars: Entertainment in the virtual worlds
- HYPERGRID EVENTS
- More news in my blog roll (column on the right)
Sweet spot
- 4 normal regions 60K prims, 40 avatars, $20/month.
- 15K prims per normal region.
- $5/month for a sim space equivalent.
- 60% Off Large Worlds, and Dedicated Memory Guarantee
- This might be price/performance competitive
Good if you want lots of space
- 16 normal regions, 120K prims, 80 avatars, $40/month.
- Good for venues hosting music, events, and the like.
- Handle big* crowds, lots of room to spread out.
- $2.50/month for a sim space equivalent.
- But you have to rent 16 normal sims to get that price.
- This might be price/performance competitive
You can't be serious
- 1 normal region, 15k prims, 10 avatars, $15/month.
- For $5 more you get the sweet spot.
- They can't expect to sell much at that price. But maybe they will run a special.
- Or maybe they want to leave a place for people to run a rental business.
Does this pricing make the BeatThis list?
- The BeatThis list for Hypergrid. Current status
- Insufficient data.
- Prices: VENDORS: GRIDS RENTING LAND
- For price/performance, I need a quantitative measure of performance.
- I have the impression that Kitely's performance is better than I see in Second Life.
- And better than I usually see on the HG.
- The hardware they are using (at Amazon) should be current and fast.
- The bandwidth should be enormous.
- They use Solid-State Drive (SSD) for urgent memory storage.
- Guaranteed memory should reduce lag.
- They have excellent customer service and automation.
- They have some proprietary features to improve performance.
- All that surely improves performance. But I don't know how much.
- There are free sandboxes available--you can test for yourself.
- Sandboxes in Kitely
- Opinion: Kitely probably has the best performance of HG commercial grids.
- But an opinion does not compute. You'll just have to visit Kitely and see.
Maria's comments
- Hypergrid Business: Kitely cuts 60% off top plans’ prices
But even with the price cuts, Kitely is not quite the lowest-cost provider.
The SkyLife grid offers single, always-on regions for just $3 each for 15,000 prims, and a 16-region varregion with 80,000 prims for just $20 per month — or $1.25 per 5,000-prim region.
But the SkyLife grid offer is new, and the grid is tiny compared to Kitely, so it remains to be seen if the offer will scale. In addition, SkyLife does not currently offer performance guarantees
Related
- Pick-a-grid checklist for HG: What to consider in picking a grid for your project
- Professional Rental Solution on Kitely market
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News and Notes
Events
Hypergrid
Lauren's Place
- Lauren's place, Tuesdays, 5 pm California time
- Location Link. Click to go or drag to the viewer screen:
- http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cookie/124/241/22
- Watch later: Lauren's channel
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Newcomer Help in Virtual Worlds
- Events on the Hypergrid. Selected Google calendars
- Calendars: Entertainment in the virtual worlds
- Blender Basics - Making Basic Mesh Prims
- Communities in Second Life: Community Cultural Hub
- Basic help for new arrivals in a virtual world at Georgia Gwinnett College
- http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/GGC%20Island/66/81/28
- How to start in a virtual world, the video: Now see it on your browser
- Firestorm Documentation and User Guide (Wiki)
- Beginner's building on the Hypergrid. Primland, the building tutorial game
- New Citizens Inc
- Table of Contents (Virtual Outworlding)
- Multilingual help: Welcome ports and Google Translate
Education
- VWBPE15 Conference, Summary, current and years past
- Education in Virtual Worlds. Summary
- Top 10 Tips on How to Use Avatars in eLearning
- How the Second Life basics series can help teachers
- SLeducate: Learn and teach in Second Life
- Learning Objectives Creator
How to handle a Hypergrid address
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Video-Machinima in virtual worlds
- Google+ page; Virtual World Video
- Machinima: Virtual World Filmmaking
- New Media Arts, Inc
- SUMMARY: Resources for video production in virtual worlds
- Videos from virtual worlds Summary
- Hobbies: Doing video/machinima in virtual worlds
- Music Videos from virtual worlds Summary
- Art videos from the virtual world
- Comedy videos from the Virtual World
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- For more on topics like this, circle Selby Evans in Google+
- What do we do in Virtual Worlds?
- Search on page with Google Chrome: Ctrl+f, search bar upper right.
- Google search this blog: Search bar, upper left--or:
- Put site:virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com at the end of the search terms
- What is Second Life?
- Annotated screen shots made with Jing
- All original content on this blog is Creative Commons License, attribution only.
- Second Life, Linden, SLurl, and SL are trademarks of Linden Research Inc.
- This blog is not affiliated with Second Life or anything else.
- Ads are from Google
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- Feel free to send me a notecard, or friend request in Kitely or Second Life.
- Selby Evans in Kitely, Thinkerer Melville in Second Life
- Lauren is funny; Avatar Repertory Theater
Video-Machinima in virtual worlds
- Google+ page; Virtual World Video
- Machinima: Virtual World Filmmaking
- New Media Arts, Inc
- SUMMARY: Resources for video production in virtual worlds
- Videos from virtual worlds Summary
- Hobbies: Doing video/machinima in virtual worlds
- Music Videos from virtual worlds Summary
- Art videos from the virtual world
- Comedy videos from the Virtual World
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- For more on topics like this, circle Selby Evans in Google+
- What do we do in Virtual Worlds?
- Search on page with Google Chrome: Ctrl+f, search bar upper right.
- Google search this blog: Search bar, upper left--or:
- Put site:virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com at the end of the search terms
- What is Second Life?
- Annotated screen shots made with Jing
- All original content on this blog is Creative Commons License, attribution only.
- Second Life, Linden, SLurl, and SL are trademarks of Linden Research Inc.
- This blog is not affiliated with Second Life or anything else.
- Ads are from Google
-
- Feel free to send me a notecard, or friend request in Kitely or Second Life.
- Selby Evans in Kitely, Thinkerer Melville in Second Life
- Lauren is funny; Avatar Repertory Theater
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