Server shut downs may affect surfing sims

Scheduled maintenance events announced by Linden Labs between Sunday 13 April and Wednesday 16 April 2008 may affect Second Life surfing, particularly on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

1,400 Second Life regions are expected to experience three hours of downtime on one or the other of those days/nights. Unfortunately, there is no way of predicting which sims will be affected by the shut downs and on which days.

Linden Labs will shut down several servers at the following times, for three hours each time:

• 2200 hrs Monday 14 April 2008 to 0100 hrs Tuesday 15 April 2008 SLT or PDT (equivalent to 0500 hrs to 0800 hrs GMT Tuesday 15 April 2008)
  
  
• 2200 hrs Tuesday 15 April to 0100 hrs Wednesday 16 April 2008 SLT or PDT (equivalent to 0500 hrs to 0800 hrs GMT Wednesday 16 April 2008)
  

These server shut downs may or may not affect your favourite Second Life surfing sim! There are a few more details on the Second Life blog, but not much.

Story update 15 April 2008:
Linden Labs will also be doing a rolling restart of Second Life servers this Wednesday and Thursday to roll out the patches to the new Havok4 servers including security patches and performance improvements.

The restarts will begin at the following times:

• 2000 hrs SLT Wednesday 16 April 2008 (500 regions will be affected)
  
  
• 0530 hrs SLT Thursday 17 April 2008 (1,600 regions will be affected)
  
  
• 1800 hrs SLT Thursday 17 April 2008 (all of Second Life will receive the 1.21 server deploy; this will take 5-6 hours to complete)

All regions will receive warnings beginning five minutes before they are shut down. During the rolling restart, regions should be back 5-10 minutes after they are stopped.

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