Most of the time, we make serving up Bibles world-wide look easy. Sometimes, not so much. On February 19th, 2025, the eBible.org server crashed hard. I administer that machine remotely, as it is in a data center more than 4,000 miles from my house. It stopped responding to all commands. I tried allocating a new server, and restoring it from its regular backup. That failed. So, I rebuilt it using new hardware from the backup on my computer at home. That worked, but it was slow. It took 4 days to transfer all of the data necessary to restore the server at the fastest upload speed my cable Internet connection can support. I’m going to be implementing a way to recover faster if this happens again. 4 days seems to me to be too long to have some Bibles unavailable.
Please Keep Praying
Thank God that:
- We now celebrate over 422 million Scripture deliveries in 1,368 Bible translations!
- I was able to rebuild the eBible.org server after a serious hardware failure.
Please pray for the following aspects of our ministry:
- Wisdom improving the way we back up and recover servers so that down time can be reduced in case of hardware failure
- Improving the automation of imports from the Digital Bible Library
- App development
- Web site upgrades
- Computer security
- Bible translation consulting
- Bible translation processing for posting on eBible.org and sister sites
Please pray for our family:
- Michael to be healed quickly from a flu (that he probably got from getting too little sleep while recovering the eBible.org server)
- Comfort, love, and unity in our family as Michael’s Mom’s will is executed
- Smooth recovery from storm damage to our house
- All of us to stay healthy
How can we pray for you, today?