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I have a nice testimony on the business side. On Friday, one of my web servers (with about a dozen business clients) went down. I contacted tech support of the software makers (Virtuozzo) that installed the software on the server. They basically came back with an answer I did not need to hear. They said the system drive (operating system) was corrupt and the files were gone or not found. I contacted tech support at the data center facility to see if they can find a workaround or fix. They confirmed the same problem. There was only one solution left (to run a hard drive *possible* fix called 'fsck'). They both confirmed running this could easily ruin or delete the data and completely corrupt it. Both parties basically said that the "damage is already done".
There were no backups for these client, this was out of the blue and gridlocked me into a nervous wreck mode. If I lost these clients, it would hurt my company reputation greatly, hurt them greatly (no recovery) and I would be hurt financially greatly.
I refused to accept "damage already done". Now, we [people on earth] were originally condemned to hell. The "damage was already done". Yet, should I have the nerves to sit here, worry and not have full faith in the name of Jesus Christ that GOD could turn this around, fix it? No! I refused to accept that. I prayed and asked some moderators to pray.
About five minutes later, the tech at the data center gave me the results. The server as back to normal, no data lost - everything perfectly intact!
PRAISE THE LORD!
No customers lost their business (or close to that realm), I was not affected and GOD gets all the glory in Christ!
Thank you Jesus
Oh, did I mention almost the same thing happened yesterday as well but on THREE SERVERS WITH 1,200 CUSTOMERS? Yes, almost the same issue. Three servers were down for nearly two hours. I prayed, mods prayed with me and GOD once again, fixed the problem!
PRAISE THE LORD AGAIN!
There were no backups for these client, this was out of the blue and gridlocked me into a nervous wreck mode. If I lost these clients, it would hurt my company reputation greatly, hurt them greatly (no recovery) and I would be hurt financially greatly.
I refused to accept "damage already done". Now, we [people on earth] were originally condemned to hell. The "damage was already done". Yet, should I have the nerves to sit here, worry and not have full faith in the name of Jesus Christ that GOD could turn this around, fix it? No! I refused to accept that. I prayed and asked some moderators to pray.
About five minutes later, the tech at the data center gave me the results. The server as back to normal, no data lost - everything perfectly intact!
PRAISE THE LORD!
No customers lost their business (or close to that realm), I was not affected and GOD gets all the glory in Christ!
Thank you Jesus
Oh, did I mention almost the same thing happened yesterday as well but on THREE SERVERS WITH 1,200 CUSTOMERS? Yes, almost the same issue. Three servers were down for nearly two hours. I prayed, mods prayed with me and GOD once again, fixed the problem!
PRAISE THE LORD AGAIN!
