Hi Joe Jr, Yes, you can switch an existing world from time-based billing to unlimited free access for all visitors any time you like. Once you do so you'll pay a pro-rated fee for the remainder of the first month (and then start paying the full cost starting from the following month). To make the ch...

Hi Roddie,

You can enter Kitely using the Kitely Plugin which automatically lunches your viewer and logs you in, or you can manually log in to the Kitely grid via your viewer.

For details, see: http://www.kitely.com/#!startviewers

You may also be interested in viewing the video presentation I gave the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Virtual Worlds Special Interest Group (SIGVE): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDvJp9vZlno It is targeted at educators but it provides a good tutorial for how to use Kitely.

The reason we can afford to give such low prices is because we use hardware very efficiently. Our system automatically rents servers from Amazon on a per-hour basis, keeping enough servers on reserve to allow us to quickly spin up worlds once they are needed (reserves are conserved so when the numbe...

Hi Joe Jr, All worlds are searchable on the map even when they are offline and all public worlds are searchable on our Public Worlds page even when they are offline. The time it takes for a world to start depends on its complexity (number of prims, meshes, textures, scripts, etc.). It can range from...

Hi Joe Jr,

All Kitely worlds automatically shut down a few minutes after they become vacant and automatically restart when someone enters them.

Hi Joe Jr, You can get new (bigger/smaller) worlds at any time but you can't resize an existing world (see e.g. http://forums.kitely.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=27 ). I'd therefor recommend you either plan to get additional worlds in the future or get the biggest size world you intend to possibly use fr...

Hi Joe Jr, I expect you may be able to charge people less than Kitely charges by splitting up worlds but I doubt you would get tenants unless you opt to switch your world to "unlimited free access for all visitors" mode. If you keep a world on time-based billing then your tenants and their visitors ...

Hi Joe Jr, Kitely offers two billing options. The first option is unlimited free access for all people who spend time in your world (similar to hosting plans you can find on other OpenSim grids and Second Life). The second option is time-based billing for just your own time, where you can get virtua...

Welcome to Kitely Joe Jr :-) Kitely used a different site for its support forum up until Dec 23, 2012. As a lot of people were on holiday with there families since then the new forums have yet to get a lot of posts. I expect this will change quickly as people come back from their vacations. For deta...