24th July 2025
Splash Screen on Viewer and New User Sign-up Websites
Hi everyone. There is currently an issue with one of our many web delivery services. The one that hosts our grid splash page and new user account creation. These services are currently unacceptable and will have to be redeveloped. This does not affect any other grid services…Read More

5th May 2025
Important updates have been made to our splash page. If you have not updated your viewer settings for DW recently you will not be seeing the splash page. Please update your viewer settings for DW to continue to see the splash page and connect to new services.
Thanks
Danny

****** PLEASE NOTE 23rd APRIL 2025 ******
WEB SERVER MIGRATION AND UPDATE
Our user account management and new user creation websites are currently in the process of being migrated to a new webserver. These services may go offline several times during the process. Work is expected to complete around the 30th of April 2025. Once the work is…Read More

Testing has begun inworld on the new release of OpenSim 0.9.3.0 All residents of Dynamic World are invited to take part in this testing. You can find the test region by using the inworld map and search for test1.
0.9.3.0 unlike its predecessors can be run simultaneously on the grid without forcing the upgrade of existing regions. This is a…Read More

Happy 11th Birthday to our beloved world – Dynamic Worldz Thank you the people who make it happen. You are the best! May we have many many more happy years and special memories together.

Merry Christmas everyone. Hope you all have an amazing Christmas and a very good 2025.
Just a heads up if anyone is wondering….. The grid is online! But our user and splash page webserver was migrated by our service provider yesterday and has not worked since. I have been in contact with them as there is a DNS issue on the new server. This does…Read More

I can’t believe that I’m saying this already 🙈
Merry Christmas everyone!🎈🎄
Thank you all for another great year and I wish you all a wonderful Christmas and a happy holiday.

As is custom (by now) the Welcome area has been decorated with a few festive items that are full prem and free to copy and share. Items will remain there until the new…Read More

We are officially turning off the website for dynamicworldz2.com and all urls including grid.dynamicworldz2.com:8822
In future when we upgrade the grid at any point, we will not introduce a new domain name. All links and subdomains will from this point on, will refer to dynamicworldz.com and grid.dynamicworldz.com:8822 only.
The turning off of…Read More

⚠ Unscheduled Grid Outage 4th Nov 2024 @ 4:30am PST ⚠
Greetings all. We had an error on one of our controllers, a blocked port. Which was stopping some from logging in and some from TP’ing to other regions.
To fix the issue we had to restart the whole grid. This was done today 4th Nov at 4:30am PST. All systems are back online. As we no longer…Read More

Outage on 2 of our servers
Good morning folks. There is currently an outage at one of our data centres that hosts some regions and our user membership website. The outage is as a result of the cooling system failing in the data centre. All servers have had to be powered down until the work can be carried out. As far as I can see only 6 regions…Read More

⚠ Global IT outage July 19 2024 ⚠
Fortunately we had completed our migration to Linux before this global IT outage happened. However that said, our splash screen for when you login to the grid is still on a Windows server, so you may have noticed an error on the splash screen and not been able to connect to the members account management site on…Read More

Greetings to you all. I hope everyone is well. A quick little update on where we are at post migration. Due to the migration process from Windows to Linux we have had corruptions to inventory, but have found that the files do start re-populating over time. It may take awhile but I think we will recover most objects as they are repopulated via the…Read More

*** Breaking News!!! ***
The migration is done! wooohooo!!!
So this morning I switched over the final (big) servers. Initial testing shows good results.
However, I would really appreciate it if everyone did a bit of testing themselves and let me have your feedback.
I will be continuing with development as there are a few things that I would…Read More

Very important update re the migration. Please note that we have had to revert back to our original servers due to incompatibility issues with our data files on the new systems. The process is going to take much longer than we had hoped. Each bit of data has to be manually converted. So I am asking all users to please box up any new items that you…Read More

The current progress on the grid assets backup after 2 days >.< Good grief! we have a lot of stuff. The backup has been running for 2 days and is only at 9% I really hope it speeds up or this is going to take forever to do. Wish me luck

The big move – Grid Migration Update 9th May 2024
**** Extended Grid Outage Planned for 28th May – 5th June 2024 ****

Greetings to you all…
Final phase of testing for our grid migration has now been completed. Due to the size of our database we are going to require an extended outage to migrate the database. This is due to the process…Read More

Greetings all
**** Update on Grid Migration – May 2nd 2024 ****
The Region server migrations have now completed. All user owned land is now hosted on Linux servers. There will be no more scheduled restarts every 2 weeks.
At the moment land owners can not restart their regions themselves. If you feel that your land could do with a restart…Read More

Greetings friends
Our conversion to Linux is going quite well. Most region servers have now been migrated. There are only two more region servers that are still in contract on Windows until later this month.
The next migration (this week) will be our grid user website.

During migration users will not be able to login to the portal or create…Read More

Our systems have been recovered and the grid is back online. I am stepping up the process to get the grid converted to Linux. I want to get all region servers converted before the end of the month and the main database will be done early part of next month so that we can finally address the current stability issues. Thanks for bearing with us and…Read More

10 April 2024 Complete grid outage. There is currently a technical issue preventing connection to the facility hosting many of our servers including our main database servers. This means that there is currently a complete grid outage. Technicians on site are working on finding a resolution. We will try to restore services as soon as possible.…Read More

ℹ⚠🎈 Region server migration 🎈⚠ The rolling region server migration will start this Monday 8th April 2024. This is a month long process and will not affect all regions at the same time. Each region server will be migrated in turn. If you are unable to connect to your region, please allow about 4 hours before contacting the helpdesk as the outage…Read More

Friday 29th March 2024 – Usual Server Maintenance in progress

Our scheduled month-end server maintenance is currently in progress. We expect our servers to be back online by around 4:30AM PDT.
Thank you for your patience and for working with us while we carry out this work.

2nd Quarter Maintenance Schedule 2024

Good day friends. Here is a copy of the next 3 months server maintenance schedule. I expect that the schedule will change however, as we will not have to do operating system updates once we switch over to Linux. Which means we will almost be able to do away with all planned outages.
Happy Easter everyone.
Danny

⚠ Grid Notice ⚠
The login server is running a Windows Server unscheduled update at the moment. All access is temporarily suspended while the system preforms the update. It should not be more than an hour. We are actually reaching the end of the update so it should be back soon. Thanks for your patience and sticking with it. Contact me (Danny) if…Read More

What a week we have had. Our service provider for our servers would not respond when our database server went down.
Only when I started canceling contracts did they bring our servers back online. No reason, no info, no explanation or any sort of communication what so ever..
Due to the outage we have lost some very valuable supporters to the…Read More

This morning I woke up and thought I’d check the connection to our database server and to my surprise I was able to connect 🎉🎈🙌. Still no correspondence from the service provider, but at least the system is back online. I am currently restarting the grid. If anyone has any concerns or would like to chat, feel free to give me a nudge. Happy D…

⚠ CRITICAL SYSTEMS FAILURE ⚠
At 4PM PSD our service provider has suffered a critical system failure. This means that all our servers are offline. I believe there are people onsite working on resolving this issue. As it is after midnight my time, I will only be able to recover systems once I’m up in the morning. If in fact the systems have been…Read More

Happy Valentines Day everyone. Quick note to all our users who may be trying to login at midnight PSD. We have to do an unscheduled restart due to an unscheduled Windows server update that ran overnight. The servers will not be offline for long as its just a restart.

⚠ Scheduled/Planned Grid Outage 31st January 2024 at 2am PDT.
A reminder to everyone that our usual month end outage is just around the corner. On Wednesday morning at 2am PDT all our servers will go offline for a couple of hours so that we can perform maintenance on the servers.
Systems are usually back online by about 3:30 or 430am. There…Read More

For those who have not yet got all your Christmas decorations the DW Welcome region has a few full prem bits available and dont forget the Christmas Store on The Spoiled Diva Freebbie Store region. Enjoy 🎄☃️🎁🎊

🎈 New teleport hud HG enabled V.0.1.3 to help you get around The Spoiled Diva Freebie Store region. Get a free copy of the handy little hud located at the landing point on hop://grid.dynamicworldz2.com:8822/The%20Spoiled%20Diva%20Freebbie%20Store/128/128/24
New in this release
1. OSSL bug fix
2. HG region pointers so you can attach the hud on…Read More

⚠🆕⚠ Cancel last request for viewer settings refresh
Greetings all. Sorry to be a pain. Please ignore the request for users to update/refresh their viewer settings for DW. I have had to reverse engineer the changes due to HG server cache which does not update, so incoming visitors from other grids got an “unable to verify user message”.
I will…Read More

⚠ Month End Outage 30th November 2023 @ 2am PST
A reminder to everyone that the grid will be offline while we perform server maintenance and database backups tomorrow 30th of November 2023 between 2am and 4:30am. All grid access and services will be offline during this time. Thanks Danny

ℹ  I’m very pleased to announce the launch of our pioneering social media and CHAT app. Now you dont have to use a web browser to get to MyAviBook on any of your Android devices…. We have a great app that transforms the way you can use MyAviBook. The app will auto detect when you are in CHAT and will turn into a messenger type app. You can…Read More

Two new updates today to MyAviBook…..
We have changed the top level menu. It now says My… before the entry to help distinguish between the lower level menu options that are available on dropdown and on visiting other pages.

The other change is to chat or messenger… Chat is now live and you can either access it by going to your “My…Read More

🎃 Happy Halloween 🎉
With only 11 days until Halloween I thought I would send out a reminder to those that want to add a few Halloween touches to your regions and parcels. There is a free Halloween shop on Spoiled Diva and I have added some full prem product at our Welcome area. The Welcome area now also has a teleport board to help you get around…Read More

ℹ Land Script Engine Options
Greetings folks
I have found a few issues with the new YEngine script engine that is used on this release of OpenSim and I have tested the legacy XEngine which seems to work better than YEngine. If any region owners want their lands script engine switched back please let me know.. For those living on free grid land,…Read More

🔒 Urgent security information message to all land owners and parcel owners…
Greetings friends
Please make sure that you do not allow “anyone can build” and “anyone can enter objects” on your land. The recent grid stability issues were all caused by a griefer visiting vulnerable regions and causing issues. If you want to allow others to rez on…Read More

📴 📗 MyAviBook Wikipedia pages are now online. You can access the Wiki by going to the site (link below)

Everything you need to know about setting up, maintaining and customising your MyAviBook account
https://wiki.dynamicworldz.com/category/myavibook/

⚠ CRITICAL SYSTEM OUTAGE from 3am PST/PDT 27th September 2023.
Once again our service provider has been dismal in their support and our main server has once again been down almost all day today. I do have a call logged but am yet to have any sort of response from them. All I can do is apologise and appeal on your patience. Hopefully they will get…Read More

CRITICAL SYSTEM OUTAGE from 11am PST/PDT 13th September 2023.
We currently have a critical system’s failure do to a downed main server. Technical teams are working on the issue but as it is now 1am in my time zone, I will not be able to restart the systems until the morning (roughly 1am PST/PDT time). I sincerely apologise for any i…Read More

📖 My Avi Book – Dynamic Worldz Social Media Pages

Quite a few have mentioned to me that you would like to be able to create your MyAviBook accounts using your existing Facebook account.
I have heard your requests and as of today you can create your own MyAviBook account using your Facebook login.
Simply click on the F icon on the sign in…Read More