November 30, 2008

AS OF NOW THE DAILY AUDIO BIBLE IS RESIDING ON IT'S OWN SERVER. THERE MIGHT BE SOME BUGS BUT EVERYTHING SHOULD BE RETURNING TO NORMAL.

Wow that was fun! The last couple of days have shown us once again what crashing a site looks like. This is the second time in our history that we've experienced this. It's been kind of stressful because first we had to figure out what was going on and then why and then what to do.

Basically the volume of requests for information from the Daily Audio Bible leaped to over a half million in a two day span and it crashed us. When this happened it helped me finally realize that we had finally outgrown our old jeans. I hate to buy new ones because the old ones are so comfortable and our butts look so nice in them. But we've sort of outgrown them and it's time to put them in the back of the drawer or give them away.

The good news is we didn't outgrow them because we're fat and sloppy. We outgrew them because we've grown strong and muscular. So I've made the decision to buy new jeans. REALLY expensive ones. The DAB is being migrated to a private environment where this can't happen again and we need that stability as we begin to provide the Bible in Spanish, Hindi and for Children. The price tag for our new digs is going to be in the neighborhood of an additional five thousand dollars (that's 200,000 rupees ) per year. Would you pray with me that God would provide this and if God invites you to participate then I'm grateful. Either way the step of faith has been taken. This is what God calls us to do. The uncomfortable must become the comfortable because God is challenging us (all of us) to shape up and move out. We don't get to be little children of the faith anymore. We're now asked to be grown men and women who carry the banner of the King and the Kingdom forward.

Over the next few days you can expect that this site might be up or down at any given moment. It's due to ovewhelming traffic. It's not a technical error. We know all about it. It's just what happens when too many people want the same thing at the same time. It will correct itself over the course of the next couple of days and then we will ultimately be on our own server and the whole issue will be gone and the site should be zippy and happy.

So that's the story. That's what's happened. This is an exciting time. I can't wait to see what God does among us next.


Onward Comrades
Brian