the perfect storm

Many of you who frequent my parcel in Second Life (THE DOCKS) may already know - in the past 24 hours Linden Labs has had some trouble in keeping certain regions online see: GRID STATUS. Unfortunately my problems as a landowner seem to be greater than most. The purpose of this post is to record and track the issues that have been beleaguering my parcel.

1. Approximately 14:00 SLT on 6/18 the sim which our parcel is located on experiences extreme lag when more than 14 people are present on the sim.
2. At around 21:00 SLT all traffic in the region where we are located resets to 0 causing THE DOCKS to appear last on search results.
3. Around 5:00 SLT our region goes offline along with 8,000 other regions due to a "power outage". Our region stays offline for at least 6 hours.
4. Due to "emergency maintenance" At 22:10 our region goes offline again... for how long is yet to be seen.

As I stated in my previous post -- for the casual user in Second Life these issues may seem to be minor but as a landowner with both a financial and personal interest in growing the popularity of my parcel these issues are not only extremely frustrating but also a significant setback when considering the highly competitive nature of a parcel in our category in competing for traffic (and thus popularity). What makes this "perfect storm" of disasters even more frustrating is that it comes on the heels of our recent explosion in growth and popularity and at this point I fear it may take days or even a week to restore the traffic that we experienced just prior to all these problems. My hope is that Linden Labs can restore service to normal by tomorrow and we can resume with normal activities by then.