On the off chance you have been following our
fairly extensive statistics, you might have noticed that OSGrid has grown pretty massively in the last 4 weeks.
The total connected servers that are 'pingable and active' has gone from 250 to 400. The region count on those has gone from 1,500 to 2,100. (
Statisticans note: Unlike the previous metric, we switched to 'active' regions about 4 weeks ago, so earlier data on the charts includes some 'inactive' regions - you can see the
spike on the region count chart.)
Users and
active users have both seen some pretty impressive spikes too.
Charting these out using the Grid List info on the OpenSimulator website, and OSGrid represents 1 in 2 regular OpenSim users, as visible below.
osgrid_activity.png
The question should be asked, well what's happened?
There have been a few things in the last few weeks which pushed OSGrid's popularity up - LL's adult content changes have as usual brought over a boatload of refugees; we launched a new shiny social-network-based-website (
Hamlet did a brief writeup on it, but it's best to
take a peek yourself [login required for most features]) - and the last few weeks have yielded some really impressive improvements to opensim performance and stability.
The other big news recently was we incorporated as a californian non-profit (I'm now officially 'Vice President', and infrastructure guy.), and we also started rennovating some of our "plaza" regions.
If you want to take a peek at what OpenSim looks like, OSGrid can be a pretty good choice - it's big (see the mainland map below), and it's always running the cutting edge latest OpenSim software (a blessing and a curse).
osgrid_maincontinent.png