I'll tell you that if you were a Passport member (I'm not), you could complain in the forum and maybe get a response.

When V4 was released, a couple of us complained to DAZ in the forums about the 500 Internal Server Error while trying to download.  Instead of shrugging us off, they shut down the download servers and restarted them a little later with much better results for all.

My feeling is that a well-constructed download server setup (esp. for the volumes these guys deal with) should queue up requests and take as many as can be handled simultaneously and focus on finishing that set before starting others.  And it should never just stop an ongoing download just because 10,000 new requests were made - that is stupid.  Maybe it's time for businesses to consider a different strategy (like Adobe, iirc) where there are two stages - queue and download.  Keeping requests to download and actual downloads separate should terminate these types of problems (requests flood server causing downloads to falter and fail).

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, you blow your whole leg off.

 -- Bjarne Stroustrup

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