Ya know.  Do any of these online sites get the point yet?  Announce a product to EVERYONE at ONCE and watch your servers go down in quick succession.

Why not set up some form of queue for people - first come, first purchase/download - everyone else waits until their number comes up?  So simple and much better than "500 Internal Server Error", followed by 404, followed by reboot, followed by the same sequence of events.

Adobe does this correctly...

I suppose you're referring to announcement of Miki2 at CP, I guess I'm just lucky because I didn't had trouble at all downloading the new files. But I see your point: Perhaps they should announce it on an alphabetic order with a 30-60min interval. (or longer depends on the amount of customers), I think it would be easy to calculate the expected amount of downloaders compaired to the available bandwidth. On the other hand: rumours spread very fast, the announcement of the new
Miki was on the forum, before it reached my mailbox.

regards,

Bopperthijs

I got there early before the big rush because I happened to see the announcement on the forum. I had Miki downloaded and installed before I got the CP newsletter via email.

I had to go through my backorders under mystuff to find my Miki serial number. I was a bit surprised to see her with a price attached for Passport members when I thought they previously said she would be free to passport members. Anyway, She's downloaded but not installed yet.

It's 2007 now and still a lot of companies are unable to manage high load (high load? Less then 100 downloads at the same time is not high load!). Insteed of splitting the job in a web and at least one seperate downloadserver (managed from the webserver), they accept the risk to become vulnerable. This is nothing other than a planed DOS attack. Yes, driving a solid webservice needs MONEY and KNOW-HOW.

I just can't believe it.

Sad.  Just sad. CP is behind the curve, apparently.  Strange......DAZ never suffered like that when V4 hit the market. :lol:

I think the biggest server crash in Poserdom was for the free Poser 5 at CP over the 4th of July weekend. That was a doozie.... oO bB

Looks like they recovered 'gracefully' - as possible.  The site came back from the dead and I could purchase and download everything.

Daz at V4 and CP at P5 - sometimes people don't read the Boy Scout motto: Always be prepared.  Or the military motto - never underestimate your enemy (worst case scenario).  You project 10 million hits, dodecacuple it (that's 12 times).  Consider the worst in your mind and then consider yourself an optimist.. :)

Part of the problem with the internet (and its strength unfortunately) is the open territory.  Like any new frontier with open territory, there are great advantages to be had - and with any advantage are those who usurp it greedily.  In this case, it is spam, spam, and, yes I'd like to have more spam please.  I forget the exact figures, but about 30-40% of all internet traffic is spam.  Imagine how well the internet would work without it!  They are the fat clogging the arteries and make what would apparently be a responsive system lethargic and ailing.  Now you know why I think that the penalty for fervent spammers should be both hands (and maybe the first born). ;0)

I found her before the announcement. I was over at CP looking for freebies and bought her before the rush.

CP fixed my Miki 1 serial problem really quickly! They are doing a great job over there, imho. Did you pick up all the birthday freebies too? OMG, I'm so glad I looked around after loading Miki into my cart. I didn't know about the birthday. Weeee. ^^ bB

Tons of freestuff. I am going to have to buy yet ANOTHER external hard drive.

LOL. I know what you mean. ;p I started with an 40 gig external. Then added a 80 gig. Then 160 gig. Then a big leap to a 400 gig, but damn it, ... that 400 gig drive is piece of %$^%@!! For the third time now, it's crashed and deleted all my content!!! My other 3 externals never did that. pouts bB

Daz did have problems with thier server when V4 came out. I don't think any company is glitch free when something popular is released.

I lucked out and RDNA news letter showed up early that afternoon, I was able to get my upgrade right off the bat,  but the last file started to slow down.