Hypergriders:
What happens if your grid fails?
Can you keep your stuff?
Can you keep your friends?
What can you do to protect yourself from the closure of your grid and to minimize the consequences if it happens?
Nothing stinks like the smell of losing everything you’ve built due to choosing the wrong provider. -- Terry Ford, Digiworldz
Grids can fail in three ways
- Go out of business, close
- Have a software catastrophe with extensive loss or corruption of files.
- Yield to a DDOS attack.
If your grid fails, you have questions
- Can you keep your stuff?
- Can you keep your friends?
- Can you keep your (business, entertainment) location?
What can you do to avoid problems?
- Keep your own backup in OAR files on your own system.
- Make sure you like the backup system on your grid.
- Keep alternative contact routes in email and social media.
- Keep alternative sales and promotion routes in web markets and social media.
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More after the break
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Metaverse events, recent and upcoming
- Registration Deadline for the Rockcliffe Conference Extended
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- HYPERGRIDABLE grids open 24/7: Interactive spreadsheet for Hypergridders.
- Events on the Hypergrid: HYPEvents
- Hypergrid Destinations
- IMA Social Web and Virtual World Events, Music, and Meeting Calendar
- HYPERGRID EVENTS
- OpenSimWorld Events
- Entertainment on the Hypergrid
- Opensim AAM Virtual Performers
- Promotion for virtual worlds and everything in 'em
- Selby's daily events and news collection: Virtual worlds are real
- Comedy Videos from the virtual worlds
- Web-world videos
Metaverse places and activities
- List of Social VR/Virtual Worlds by Ryan Schultz
- Search this blog with the search bar, upper left.
- Hypergrid Writer's Community
- Metaverse Jobs; Job Listings
- IMA projects
- 3D WEBSITES A2Z
- 3D web-worlds of the browser (G+ community)
- Web-worlds, 3D virtual worlds running in a browser. Summary
- Virtual Outworlding news collection
- Destination guide: OpenSimWorld
- Hyperica, Directory of Opensimulator hypergrid destinations
- WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
- Hypergrid-related articles in this blog
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Can you keep your stuff?
- Keep your own backup in OAR files on your system.
- Backup: Saving your video production set in Kitely. AMP video notes
- Did the closure of Zangrid result in loss of items bought on Kitely Market?
- Kitely Market offers new features for product updates and grid-closure problem
- Creators: you are creating your brand; whether you attend to that is up to you
Find out about the practices on your grid
- Backup. How well is Kitely protecting our data?
- What is your grid doing to resist a DDOS attack?
- Defense against DDOS attack (search)
- How does your grid manage backup?
Can you keep your friends?
- Your friends are still friends, but you need a new way to communicate.
Keep alternative contact routes in email and social media.
- Maybe your grid should have its own G+ community
- Kitely Virtual
- If you are in an active community, maybe it should have a G+ presence.
Can you keep your (business, entertainment) location?
- No. That is a loss of previous marketing.
- If you expect your location to have value, check out the location carefully.
- You build value into your location through promotion and marketing.
- Your fans and customers already have your location.
- You don't want to go through the same effort again.
- Be sure you don't pay for lower costs with higher risks.
Keep alternative sales and promotion routes in web markets and social media.
Checklist
- You can make a backup to OAR yourself
- (don't have to file a request ticket and wait for service).
- 24/7 uptime
- Automatic grid backup.
- Grid support to bring traffic to your place?
- Promotion by the grid, web visibility
- Hypergrid access? Hypergrid can bring lots more people to your place.
- Number of local (to you) people on the grid
- Language other than English, if that suits you better
- Servers near you? You may get better service with shorter distances.
- Server resources: Bandwidth and best servers may give you better service.
- Lifestyle (eg.LGBT friendly)
- Active community promoting community interests.
- Visibility on the web? Can people find your place in a web search?
- Direct access: can people TP directly to your place?
- Help/service, problem resolution (fast)
- Inworld currency. Exchangeable for dollars?
- Price (Nothing is cheap if it is not what you need.)
- Have they been in operation long enough to show staying power?
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