i have gotten a few comments, emails, and tweets wishing us well from people thinking we are no longer in-world

what’s the matter with you? can’t you read my mind?

lol – i guess i have not actually written a post saying what we are doing, just a few mentions within other posts (with all the tangents i go off on, it’s no wonder that some peeps wondered what was up)

well, Ener Hax is no longer in Second Life – Linden Lab cancelled my account over $5 (which i put in 4 tickets about). i guess my $50,000 USD revenue stream over a few years did not warrant anyone actually reading my tickets – the last of which was asking them to unlock my account so that i could pay the stupid $5!

anyway . . . *sigh* . . . subQuark got into OpenSim last November with Reaction Grid and i started poking around on his estate in January, then started building in earnest mid-february

i maxed out our resources in Reaction Grid and was trying to be careful in telling the world (or at least the people reading this blog) that we moved. i respect the people at Reaction Grid and did not want to make it sound like we moved because of them (i am a big sap worried about other people’s feelings – probably more than i should)

but i looked at the stats and in the last quarter there have been 198 clicks from this blog to Reaction Grid’s website. in my day job, a click leading to us is worth $4.16! with Google AdWords, depending on the time of day, some words cost quite a bit (the words “real estate” can get $21 per click or more! every time someone clicks those ads in google search results, that cost the advertiser real money!) and i know of six sims sold because i took the time to blab to people in-world and to be fair, those people may not have mentioned talking to me. so i don’t need to be all delicate! =) *an empowered Ener is a mighty wiener*

so where the hell are you Ener?!?! good God, get to the point!

well me (and maybe Carmen Sandiego, but i have no idea about Waldo) moved to another OpenSim host. i maxed out our resources with Reaction Grid and building has been a tough go because of that. so we started looking at what we need to continue this project (Enclave Harbour)

of course, we looked at what Reaction Grid had first and liked a package that has 4 cores, 8 gig RAM, 500 gig disk, 10 Mbs transfer. but the cost for that in their outpost store is $1075 per month! yikes and ouch!

long story short – subQuark and James Stallings II started talking and James (SimHost) set us up with those specs for less than we had been paying! even i know that is a good deal! plus i have groups now! =)

Enclave Harbour and Ener Hax are still in-world with a private grid setup by SimHost =)

also with us are Dream Walker, Nickola Martynov, Micheil Merlin, and subQuark (who does not count cuz he is still a Ruth and never logs in). i have Sunny’s store in place  (it links out to her online store) and we have Krissy’s house in Enerville (she is a budding furniture maker and long time friend)

right now we are on the bleeding edge with a dev version of OpenSim 0.7.1 and still getting server stuff setup and will be hypergrid enabled to the rest of the OSGrid soon. a private grid is becoming the trend for education grids like ours and for business use too. one reason is that you can make one account on OSGrid rather than accounts on private grids. OSGrid is kind of like the internet of virtual worlds

so apart from my tangent on CPC, Google AdWords, Carmen Sandiego, and Waldo, i hope this clears it up for anyone losing sleep over it (if you lose sleep over Ener Hax, either see a doctor or drink more martinis) =)