[sldev] Opening the server source?

[Mike Monkowski]

Jason Giglio wrote:
> For $6700 per server + $1180 per month per server, I think they are 
> quite happy hosting server farms.

Although some companies like to brag about increased revenue, it's 
really the profit that keeps them going.  Reduce those charges by the 
cost of the server, its maintenance, overhead, and support, and you can 
charge less but keep the same profit.  Remember LL would still sell the 
ability to connect to the main grid, so their income source would not 
disappear.

> Any sort of open grid is going to decimate the market for linden land.

I don't agree.  I see no reason why this should be the case.

> To put it in perspective, if you were LL you'd need about 150-200 new 
> premium accounts for each server you don't host, to make up the difference.

I never suggested that the connection of private sims should be free.

> And those accounts would use the bits of the service they are having the 
> most trouble scaling well.

Huge databases and transaction servers are everywhere.  If LL is having 
trouble scaling these, it's just because of bad architecture.  There is 
nothing inherently difficult about them.

Mike