http://rocketvirtual.com

It’s the most comprehensive yet on setting up the Diva Distro version of opensim.

The average may be true but that doesn’t mean that the split is half above average and half below average.

For example lets say there are 100 regions with 10 avatar-hours and 1 region with 1000 avatar-hours, the average is (100*10 + 1*1000) / 101 = 19.80 avatar-hours even though there are 100 regions using less than that average (just 10 avatar-hours) and only 1 region using more.

In this scenario more than 99% of regions are forced to subsidize the cost of just 1 heavy-use region. The Kitely model makes better financial sense for all but the top few % of regions.

With Kitely, that adds up to just around $7 million a month in hosting costs.

SL has about 25,000 private regions — that’s just over $7 million in hosting costs for users.

So, *on average* Kitely costs about exactly the same as Second Life. This means that half of all region owners (the ones that see less traffic) will do better with Kitely, and the ones that see more than average traffic would do worse with Kitely.

Probably best use case is for small groups holding occasional meetings, and content creators that want to create their stuff outside of Second Life, then import it for sale — and need a lot of space for builds and object warehouses.

– Maria

So first you have to lease or have a server, and configure it, have a DSL or other broadband line with the right graphics card, and then you have to figure out how to get the open sim software running such as to “create a world”. You have to get a sim, terraform it, put content on it, and save it as the OAR file. There are likely 100 steps within that little phrase.

Metaplace was trying to make that concept simpler. You really could download their browser, with a few simple steps enter their welcome area, and on the browser, start little worlds that were like sims that had expansions to them. Then you could share it in various ways.

But open sim isn’t simple like that.

Thanks!