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Fire & Ice Land Prices – Affordable Prices.

Posted on September 26, 2020
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Region Prices From £2 (2'000 prims) to £21 (150'000) prims Fire & Ice Land Prices are based purely on the allocation of prims required. As a result, a standard sim (256m*256m) with the same primitive allowance costs the same as 2*2(512*512), 3*3(768*768), 4*4(1024*1024) or even 8*8 (2048*2048). With prices starting…continue reading →

Reduced Downtime and Increased Stability

Posted on September 16, 2020
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Reduced Downtime and Increased Stability Reduced Downtime and Increased Stability is a vital goal of all online services. Happily, the lastest server-side updates at Fire And Ice deliver both of these improvements. By detecting and fixing these events automatically, manual intervention is less necessary. Less manual server interventions means more…continue reading →

Grid backups and oar files

Posted on May 1, 2020
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How many times has the OpenSim community found out too late that their grid has no backups or that their operator doesn't have the skill to deploy them? Something goes wrong, and the grid closes, leaving customers with nothing. Events like this should never be; unfortunately, the opposite has been…continue reading →

Opensim version upgrade completed.

Posted on February 2, 2020
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The Fire And Ice Grid are pleased to announce we have completed our opensim version upgrade. The opensim version upgrade to 0.911 forms part of our ongoing commitment to keep up with opensimulator developments. As with all our opensim version upgrades, a full backup (independent of our regular daily backups)…continue reading →

Fire And Ice Grid Backups & OAR’s

Posted on December 31, 2019
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This post is now out of date and has been superseded here. For our customer's security, a backup of the main asset database is taken each day. This is done to a machine held in a totally separate data centre to the one where the main server is. From there,…continue reading →