Issue #28 had a few issues that needed to be corrected, one being that we printed the wrong bio information under the wrong writer. This and a few other things have now been corrected and a new version has been loaded to our site. The mirrors should be updated within a few days as well.

We have had a few complaints about messed up formatting in Issue #25. So I had Gaurav generate a new pdf for that issue as well. It has now been corrected and uploaded to our site. Like Issue #28, the mirrors should be updated within a few days as well.

And now for an explanation of our recent website problems. During the release of the last two issues of Blenderart Magazine, we have experienced rather annoying site outages. Something that had not plagued us up to this point.

Oddly enough, after investigation by Nam, this is not a bandwidth problem. But a problem with the number of site hits at once. Apparently our ISP is under the mistaken impression that we are being attacked and shuts down our site. And the number that trips it is not even that outrageous. We are talking about 65 “hits” at once. Seems like a pretty small attack to me.

We thought we had it fixed after the first time it happened, the second time wasn’t as bad as the first. But it still happened. So Nam and I have been discussing ways to lessen the chances of it happening again. When issue #29 releases, we will just have to see how it goes.

I guess this is the price of being popular.