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Would be nice to show an example spell card in the product photos so we have an idea of what the cards look like.

They must have done something to fix things, I've been able to download several of my books! Well done, Paizo!

Zaero wrote:

silverfoxdmt73 wrote:

Pete17331 wrote:

IT guy here. Yes, it is perfectly possible to prepare for this kind of workload. For example, companies like EA Sports does it every time they get ready to release a new game. They outsource and get enough temporary processing power (in the cloud) to handle the predicted workload.

I imagine companies like EA Sports have more than 50 staff across their IT department, never mind the whole company and a few $billion to throw at outsourcing IT.

Fellow IT guy here. You can scale, sure, but if you don't have the hardware or the ability to invest, that scalability doesn't amount to a hill of beans.

EA has (I would argue) a far bigger resource pool to work with. But hey, obviously everyone has infinite servers to deploy at any time.

Thats why for a company like this they should be using Amazon WS. Sure owning hardware is cheaper in the long run but now instead of letting the service spawn a few more servers for you or you do it yourself they now have angry customers who may or may not have been future clients at full price or monthly subscribers to other services offered.

Agreed - building an infrastructure that doesn't scale may be easier in the short term, but eventually it's going to bite you in the ass, which is what has happened here.

It's a large event, yes, but a web-based business should prepare for an event they know is coming, and be able to scale servers in response.

Maybe they are doing this and it's still not enough, maybe they are doing nothing but watch their servers redline all day, waiting for traffic to die down in a few days.

For many people this is their first experience with Paizo, by not being prepared for that traffic, they have made those people's first experience a terrible one.