For a limited time, Kitely‘s “Mega Worlds” region packages are on sale again, for $90 a month, the company announced today.
A “Mega World” is a variable size region the size of 64 standard region that can hold up to 150,000 prims. That works out to just $1.40 per standard region per month.
They also get their own dedicated servers.
The downside? They’re only available for the first 25 customers who order.
The deal comes shortly after Kitely’s recent performance upgrades that sped up world startup times. And, in May, Kitely rolled out an upgrade that doubled region performance.
Normally, the Mega Worlds cost $120 a month, and the last time the Mega Worlds were on sale was four years ago.
Most OpenSim grids and hosting providers cram a lot of variable-sized regions into each server and run multiple variable-sized regions on each OpenSim instance in order to keep their operational costs manageable and their prices affordable, said Kitely CEO Ilan Tocher.
“This can be problematic because if your region shares server resources with many other regions then it may run slowly due to what happens in those other regions,” he told Hypergrid Business.
Kitely uses a different strategy and instead of placing a lot of variable-sized regions — which it calls “worlds” — on each server it automatically starts worlds when they are entered and shuts them down when they become empty.
This enables Kitely to run each world on its own OpenSim instance and place no more than four such worlds on each server. By doing this Kitely provides each actively used world a lot more server resources than what other OpenSim grids provide, thus giving its customers a better inworld experience while keeping its prices competitive.
What is unique about Mega Worlds is that Mega Worlds don’t share their server. A Mega World is guaranteed to always get a full server of its own when its active, so it can fully use all of the server’s resources without being impacted by other people’s worlds. This means that Mega Worlds can run bigger worlds, with more scripts and more visitors, than other worlds.
You can read more about Kitely Mega Worlds and its limited-time promotion here.
For examples of publicly-accessible Mega Worlds, check out Coopersville, Signature Safety LLC, and the International Spaceflight Museum.
Coopersville hypergrid address: grid.kitely.com:8002:Coopersville
Signature Safety LLC hypergrid address: grid.kitely.com:8002:Signature Safety LLC
International Spaceflight Museum hypergrid address: grid.kitely.com:8002:ISMuseum
Kitely, which opened to the public in March 2011, is one of the longest-running and most innovative OpenSim grids. With its unique on-demand region system and the popular Kitely Market, the grid is a significant player in the virtual world ecosystem.
