4 Million Residents…
Those Resident numbers just seem to keep growing and growing and now the Lindens really do need to start to act.
Personally i think the server plants in San Francisco (i think they have another location but im not too sure) need to be spread out across the world. One main factor of lag for the Europeans is the time it takes to ping a server. I usually get a ping every 100-300 milliseconds. If they could possibly make a network onto the European land and spread the load issue that would be great for all as they spread the database load but also hopefully speed up the European connections too.
Tateru Nino on February 25th, 2007
Alas, a lot of the recent load problems appear to be caused by the fact that they have more than one server farm (one in California, and one in Texas). Apparently there’s work going ahead on Wednesday to try to get that under control - but every new server farm will apparently increase the load.