[Opensim-users] MySQL on seperate server?

[Ken G.]

Alright, thanks Daz for answering my question and thanks to John and
Master_Mirage for the input. I am just a hobby user of opensim, connected to
OSGrid, hoping that maybe there was a way to improve my mediocre connection
:)

Ken aka Key


On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 3:00 PM, John Mieske <johnmieske at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have to agree with Darren here. If your doing this at home, you might as
> well have both on the same computer. Your internet in general will dictate
> what you can do. So if your running this at home, hang up the idea of two
> computer region serving because no one will see a difference when they
> already bogg down from a slow internet connection to your region. I have
> seen some Regions who run them at home with the best of intentions only shut
> down days later because they realize their internet only allowed 2 avatars
> to run smoothly. When they got to 3, their sim started to crash. It is all
> about your upload speed. However, if you got a FAT PIPE ( not to smoke
> hahaha ) then yea you definitely might want to try the way I suggested.
> Again everything in OpenSim is based on HOW you run your Grid / Regions.
> Nothing is 100% set one way. I only offered a suggestion to those who could
> use this benefit. And there are already some servers that has been setup
> this way and they are smooth.
>
> John
>
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Darren Williams <darren at dmmhosting.co.uk>wrote:
>
>>  Ken G asked:
>>
>>
>>
>> Dumb question from a casual opensim user who is not fully clued in on it's
>> workings, that popped into my head after reading John Mieske's Space Grid
>> Station post:
>>
>> Is it feasible and sensible while running opensim on a home PC connection
>> to be able to use a MySQL database on a shared web hosting server, such as
>> Hostgator for example? If possible, would this type of setup improve
>> performance of a lightly used standalone or grid-connected sim?
>> I haven't put much thought into this idea, just wanted to blurt it out and
>> see if it's worth pursuing.
>>
>>
>>
>> Ken,
>>
>>
>>
>> You shouldn’t receive any benefit at all doing the above. In fact it will
>> probably make things worse.
>>
>>
>>
>> If I’m reading this right then the region server which you have running
>> locally would then be pulling/pushing the data from across the net on the
>> mysql server, back to your machine. It would probably run worse.
>>
>>
>>
>> Daz
>>
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