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Poser - OFFICIAL F.A.Q (Last Updated: 2024 Nov 28 11:20 am)
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
-How can you improve things when you don't make mistakes?
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.
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 cannot save the world. Only my little piece of it. If we all act
together, we can save the world.--Nelson Mandela
An inconsistent hobgoblin is
the fool of little minds
Taking "Just do it" to a whole new level!
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)
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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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...
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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