Looking Inside the Second Life Data Centers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday March 11, 2007 @01:28AM from the lookit-all-them-wires-in-there dept.

An anonymous reader writes "InformationWeek looks inside the data centers that power the game Second Life. Tidbits from the article: The software architecture is an extension of the virtual world metaphor of Second Life. At any time, it's possible to walk into one of Second Life's two data centers, pat one of the rack-mounted servers, and say that particular server is running virtual New York, or San Francisco, or ancient Rome, and imagine itty-bitty people and buildings inside the 1U rack-mounted servers. Linden Lab, which develops and maintains Second Life, runs 2,000 Intel- and AMD-based servers in two co-location facilities in San Francisco and Dallas. And, contrary to widespread belief among Second Life users, Linden Lab has not decided whether to open-source the Second Life server software."

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Re:Game? by Anonymous Coward · 2007-03-11 02:32 · Score: -1, Flamebait

So why do we pay to be VIEWERS of this advertising? I don't know. Why DO you pay to be a viewer?
Shouldnt it be free to viewers and paid for advertisers then? Yes, it should be free to you. But you keep paying them money, so why should they stop accepting it?