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Deuteronomy 14:18
And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
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Posted by: Shawn on Thursday, November 04, 2004 - 07:07 PM
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Spiritual Warfare, or Coincidence? | We sincerely apologize for being offline for the past 2 days. I do believe that we have everything properly holding together at this point. This is the first time in many years that anointed.net was offline for more than a few hours. On Nov 2nd two separate events occurred that caused not only our web site, but my personal dsl line to go down.
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You could not imagine my disappointment to wake up on election day and not only be unable to get online myself, but to also know that our server was down as well.
Leading up to the election our traffic was record breaking for us. In a one week span of time we moved over 1000GB of data, and had tens of thousands of people accessing either the web site or the Stolen Honor video itself. These type of data transmission rates are unheard of for all but the largest Christian web sites. It was so extreme that our data center believed we were under an actual attack and "throttled" us back. That "throttle" only stayed for a single day once they figured out the traffic was indeed ok. We came to a mutual resolution on how to solve the issue and moved the main content to a number of our other servers to balance the traffic load.
On the evening of November 1st we received over 31,000 emails in about a 12 hour span of time. People definitely had a lot to say about the web site and the video being shown. I am happy to say that 99% of the emails were actually quite uplifting and encouraging us to continue.
On November 2nd the site went completely offline. After serious troubleshooting of the problem the power supply was replaced twice but the problem was not resolved. The web site would come up but immediately power down and it was not un till today that the full extent of the problems were known. It turns out there was a MAJOR overheating problem going on system wide. Parts were literally MELTING.
As of this moment, parts have been pulled together to "piece" the server back together and the site is obviously online again.
As to my dsl line, that is back up and running. Here is the really "funny" thing about that situation. After 3 days of waiting for a resolution to my problem, the Verizon technician finally came to my house to troubleshoot the problem. It turns out that someone had REMOVED my dsl switch at their main station and given it to someone else. When he arrived at the station today, he found the piece back in my slot, only it was in backwards. Once again is this warfare or coincidence? I'll let you decide that one, as I can see no reason to ever have my switch removed, nor could they explain it.
WE REALLY NEED YOUR HELP ON THIS WEBSITE!
Our server is holding at the moment, but we really do need to buy the proper equipment to keep it up and running in the future.
As most of you know, we are all ready the largest prayer board on the Internet, and we continue to grow daily. The traffic and demand on the server is going to only increase as the Lord continues to bless this ministry.
Building a "proper" server for this site is going to cost thousands of dollars, and we need your help.
I am asking for those of you that can to partner together with us in order to purchase the needed equipment to keep this site running and to upgrade it for future growth. We currently personally spend over $5,000 a month in server fees and programming salaries to keep this site online for those in need.
If you would like to consider helping with this ministry please Click here to make a donation.
We have 2 options. One is where you can make a one time gift, and the other allows you to make automatic monthly gifts to help maintain this web site. Every donation will make a difference, and if you cannot afford to donate, PLEASE keep us and this web site in your prayers.
Thank you and the Lord bless you all
Shawn Gaffney |
If you would like to enter a prayer for this website server click here.
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