Grid Issues

The Second Life Grid has been up and down many times over the past 24 hours.   April Linden takes up the story..

Hi everyone.

As I’m sure most of y’all have noticed, Second Life has had a rough 24 hours. We’re experiencing outages unlike any in recent history, and I wanted to take a moment and explain what’s going on.

The grid is currently undergoing a large DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack. Second Life being hit with a DDoS attack is pretty routine. It happens quite a bit, and we’re good at handling it without a large number of Residents noticing. However, the current DDoS attacks are at a level that we rarely see, and are impacting the entire grid at once.

My team (the Second Life Operations Team) is working as hard as we can to mitigate these attacks. We’ve had people working round-the-clock since they started, and will continue to do so until they settle down. (I had a very late night, myself!)

Second Life is not the only Internet service that’s been targeted today. My sister and brother opsen at other companies across the country are fighting the same battle we are. It’s been a rough few days on much of the Internet.

We’re really sorry that access to Second Life has been so sporadic over the last day. Trying to combat these attacks has the full attention of my team, and we’re working as hard as we can on it. We’ll keep posting on the Second Life Status Blog as we have new updates.

See you inworld!

April Linden
Second Life Operations Team Lead

Follow the story here: https://community.secondlife.com/blogs/entry/2312-unscheduled-ddos/

Ride on the Peace Train

It was the climax of the love-in at London City.

Through February, lovers enjoyed Matt Monro, Neil Sedaka and the Everly's in concert.  Bringing the event to a close, last night, Cat Stevens filled the amphitheater with pure love!   There wasn't a dry eye in the house.  We all had tears rolling down our legs..

Today it is Substation with Bailey and Coffee at 11am PST, then the Cash For Questions quiz with Katty on the beach at 1pm PST.

And The Music Played

It was a lovely romantic night, courtesy of the silky smooth voice of Matt Monro.  The natives were doing their mating dances and letting love flow into their hearts..

And there is more to come today with Substation at 11am PST (7pm UK) and Worlds End (on the beach) at 1pm PST

To boldly send a jolopy into space

In November 2017, you will recall the maiden flight of Flat Grid 1.  An effort to conclusively prove once and for all that the Second Life world is flat and not round.

The initial flight of our dung powered rocket was fraught with problems and our heroic astronauts were forced to return to earth in the lunar module (sofa).

Today in a gigantic leap for mankind, Flat Grid 1 launched a sculpty VW Beetle into low earth orbit.

The launch of this old banger into space, conclusively proves we can now travel to any planet in the galaxy.

London City Valentine's Video

London City is the Party place in Second Life.  Enjoy these edited highlights of our recent events and you will see for yourself!

We hope to see you enjoying the Valentine's season with us here in London City.  Love is most definitely in the air!

Underwater Love

A Valentines repost from 2016:

Check out the new dance routine performed by The London City Players in their new video entitled, Underwater Love..

And remember, if you are looking for Love this Valentines, look no further than London City.   Our love theme continues this weekend with Matt Monro's Love-In on Saturday 13th and Nat King Cole in Concert on Sunday, Valentines Day.

Love is in the air

What a lovely weekend it has been so far.  And with Substation and Worlds End parties about to begin in the next hour, its a long chalk from being over.

Here are some highlights from the start of the valentine's season from Friday and Saturday.

Valentine's in London City

If you've been looking for love in all the wrong places, then London City is the right place for you in February.

It's the love-fest centered around Valentines.   All our pubs and clubs will be holding themed events through the month for singles and couples and those looking to meet that special person.

With over 3,500 unique avatars visiting the estate every day, this is Second Life's most popular estate and your chances of meeting Mr or Mrs Right are greatly increased here!

Every weekend in February, there will be special concerts for lovers from, The Everly's, Matt Monro, Neil Sedaka and many more.

The Lab has also put us in as the Editors Pick for Valentines.   So if you have previously been looking for love in the wrong places.. try London City, its the right place to make friends, have great conversations and possibly meet the person of your dreams.

London City Love

Celebrate the passion of love in London City's monthly celebration of the heart. Themed events will happen every night, including weekend concerts and special attractions centered around Valentine's Day. This event runs to the end of February.

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