Shortly before midnight we received numerous reports of Lindex exchange problems, and just after that word of widespread asset system failures - including possible loss of no-copy items when rezzed. Be careful in there.
19,542 new signups bringing us to 9,879,396 signups total.
The ten millionth signup is due in 6 days, but Linden Lab apparently plan to load test the registration system over the weekend, which will inflate the number of signups artificially. The accounts created as a part of the testing will be removed when the load test is done.
A peak concurrency of 48,292 at 2:15PM, and a minimum concurrency of 26,704 at 1:15AM. Median concurrency for the day was 37,788.
The Grid Stability Index for the day was 1.39 (lower is better) - Some late problems to the day were resolved quickly. The Second Life website threw quite a number of errors and timeouts between 9am and 11am SLT (US Pacific).
Linden Lab's Neuro Linden put forward an explanation for the grid problems in the first two days of the month. A combination of issues with a new rolling restart process, network issues and a failed VPN server.