UPDATE: 11:15am PDT: The Second Life Grid has been reopened. There are still a few regions which are offline, these regions should come back online shortly. Thank you all for your patience.

10:35am PDT: The Second Life Grid is still currently down as we work on an issue with one of our Dallas network switches identified during testing of this morning’s maintenance work. We’re currently working to either repair the problem and bring the switch back online or move the affected hosts to another network so we can open the grid. We apologize for this inconvenience and thank you all again for your patience.
10:00am PDT: We’re currently in the final stages of today’s maintenance work. We hope to be back up shortly and apologize for the delay.
9:00am PDT: The downtime is still going well, we hope to be back up again by 10am PDT. Thank you all for your patience while we work to improve Second Life.
7:00am PDT: Work on the main grid is proceeding as expected. Beta Grid logins are being slow; we’re investigating the problem.

As previously announced, the grid is currently closed while some maintenance work is performed. We’re not doing any software updates - this is purely hardware work needed to ensure critical things like electricity are delivered to all of the machines that make up the grid, and also to increase the bandwidth into our Dallas facility. We should be open again by 10am PDT.

As a reminder: at 8am PDT there will be a Party on the Beta Grid to test out Voice. An updated Beta viewer (version 1.16.0.1) will be required - you can see an earlier post to find out what else is in it.

NOTE: The Lindens engaged in the update are hard at work, so we probably won’t read comments on this post. Party on, dudes!