[sldev] Linden Lab Navigations and Landmark Project

[Ed Anuff]

Far be if from me to challenge conventional wisdom on the subject, but I'll
do it anyway.  It looks like the new trend in large scale internet services
is moving the other direction at the moment, Google, Amazon, etc. are
getting people (first their business partners, now end-users and independent
developers) to move code and content into their grids and datacenters.  As
to a content creator hosting their assets on a server they have "complete
control" over, most high traffic websites use content networks or
specialized hosting to handle their data transfers, no one who's hosting any
sizable amount of rich media content is doing it themselves - they might
have "complete control" via a management interface to Akamai, but if they're
serving images from a machine they bought and own which sits in their server
rack, for example, they're doing something wrong or they're very
small-time.  The LL grid should serve the purpose of being the cloud
computing/content network optimized for serving content to virtual worlds.
Now, whether it makes sense to have your datacenter on a fault line is a
different question entirely.

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:35 PM, SignpostMarv Martin <me at signpostmarv.name>
wrote:

> Ed Anuff wrote:
>
>
> > On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 7:02 PM, Jason Giglio <gigstaggart at gmail.com<mailto:
> > gigstaggart at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >    Linden Lab hosting every byte of content is not a viable plan for the
> >    future.
> >
> > That's actually kind of sad, really, because what you're saying is that
> > LL can't become the cloud computing provider of virtual worlds.  Although
> > it's really fashionable to talk about a decentralized grid and people
> > running their own servers, if LL is going to be relevant in the long term,
> > it's going to have to be able to be the Amazon EC2 of virtual worlds,
> > anything else is going to get marginalized and/or commoditized over time.
> >
> Storing all your eggs in one basket is a very, very bad idea.
>
> Do take into account that a sizeable chunk of Second Life is not too far
> from a major fault line.
>
> Decentralisation FTW!
>
> A hypothetical concept of decentralised asset storage is that a content
> creator could host their textures on an asset server they have complete
> control over, and could allow/disallow access to the assets on a Geo/IP
> level, a grid level, and possibly down to individual avatar requests, much
> in the same way web server/proxy/firewalls can be configured to disallow
> access from specific countries, IP ranges, networks and MAC addresses.
>
>
> ~ Marv.
>
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