I was a bit curious about how to check the class of a sim, as so far i didn t found any way to do that, but some people claim to have class 6, 7, 8 regions, so i ve opened the premium chat and asked a linden agent, here s the conversation, where xxxxx stay for the name of the linden agent, hidded to fit the forum rules about naming names: xxxxxx L: Hello! I may be working with multiple issues already, so please explain your issue (including any ticket numbers we will be discussing) and I will be with you shortly. Please note: Live Chat is unable to assist with abuse-related issues. Abuse reports can be submitted using the Second Life viewer's built-in tool under the Help menu. You: May i know how to check which class is a region? some people claim to have a class 8 regions, how the hell is possible? xxxxxx L: we have moved away from that sort of designation. Essentially, server class no longer matters, because we have created a system where each region is allocated the same amount of resources as others of its type (Full, Homestead, Openspace) grid wide. xxxxxx L: There is a blog post on it here http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Land-and-Sea-General/Moving-away-from-server-Class/ba-p/650813 You: this article is 4 years old You: so why people continue to claim their class 7 or class 8 regions? xxxxxx L: I really don;t know. As I said it no longer matters. You: but if they say that, and they can t check it, they are just lying trying to get more customers with false informations that they neither have? xxxxxx L: We do not have any tools for them to check that information You: so they are giving false advertising? xxxxxx L: If you feel that they are you are welcome to file an abuse report ----- End of the conversation ----- Well, i didn t made any abuse report, but i thought was right let people know how things are, lying with false informations is not a fair way to make business. Resuming, regions don t have a class since first months of 2010, all regions have the same performances when empty, so lag issues depends only on how the region is used (laggy scripts, physics, lot of avatars, etc) A good way to check lag on a region is by pressing ctrl + shift + 1: - Look on fps sim, the value should stay around 45 fps, if it drops too often down to 20-30 or lower the sim is lagging - Look under time (ms), last value is free time, if this value is 0 or very close to it the sim could be lagging, as the server power is used at 100% so it cant handle all the requests in time to give full performances, if free time is around 1 ms or above the region is just running fine, as the server still has some power that is not using. Use these little tricks to check the performance of a region instead of trusting people claiming class 1000 servers