Second Life Scalability Issues

Since September concurrency rates have tripled, to a peak last week of over 34,000. So Linden will restrict access during peak hours to Second Life Residents who have transacted with Linden Lab either by being a premium account holder, owning land, or purchasing currency on the LindeX. At the same time, new account registrations will be closed.  Also, Linden is building a set of Web-based tools to allow you to manage various aspects of your account, tentatively called my.secondlife.com. 3pointD takes a look at this in its first post and then follows up in a second post based on a note from Cory Ondrejka, chief technology officer at Linden, to 3PointD.