Steward Popular Post George Posted January 21 Group: Steward Followers: 110 Topic Count: 10,465 Topics Per Day: 1.26 Content Count: 27,774 Content Per Day: 3.33 Reputation: 15,466 Days Won: 129 Joined: 06/30/2001 Status: Online Birthday: 09/21/1971 Steward Popular Post Share Posted January 21 Worthy is back up and running after a catastrophic collapse of a database server. Sometime in the middle of the night on January 16, 2023, an automatic update of a database server caused the server to fail. So, database updates are mostly about keeping things secure, right? But this time, it kind of backfired and made our database server crash. It took us two whole days to figure out what went wrong. In the end, we had to reinstall the server and rebuild each database from scratch. On this particular server sits a host of Worthy sites, such as the forums, our Worthy News Syndication Service, the Worthy Prayer Team, Worthy Bible, Worthy Brief, and some smaller sites. So you can imagine the impact of the Kingdom when that server went offline … So, the databases for our other sites were pretty small, and we got those sites online Friday night. But the forums database? It's huge! We're talking about 7.3 gigs, which is like 7 billion, 300 million bits of info. That's a lot of information to rebuild! That’s literally 23 years of information that thousands of people where people have posted, shared, fellowshipped … it’s really amazing when you think of the impact we’ve had over the years! But with that, the database is so massive, and with so many people trying to get onto Worthy these past few days, every hit was causing the database to be accessed. It actually made the reconstruction of the database grind to a halt and even fail a few times in trying to rebuild it. Yesterday, my programmer, who's already got a full-time job, came up with a plan on Friday. He suggested we build the database again but do it outside of the main Worthy Database everyone's trying to use. Basically, set up a parallel one and then rename it. This way, we could finish rebuilding the database without interruption. Basically, that process of rebuilding so many bytes of information took over 45 hours, and that, in a nutshell, is what happened. I've got a crazy amount of emails from folks and couldn't reply to them all, so please forgive me. I'm juggling rebuilding Worthy while preaching on the road, traveling, homeschooling, and keeping Worthy News updated... it's pretty wild sometimes! Anyway, we are back and running … the database restore was from January 14th, so any posts that you may have written after that date are lost forever. Pray for Worthy up in prayer... and for those who are aware of the current situation in Israel, you'll understand the spiritual battle we're engaged in! As a pastor, I urge you to remember that almost every ministry deeply involved with Israel is facing severe spiritual warfare. If I could explain without revealing too much private information, but leaders having organ transplants, leaders of central ministries stepping down due to failing due to the vices of sin, to malicious attacks by significant publications, and now one of our servers having a catastrophic loss of a database server that impacts the lives across the world by the thousands per day! We’ve already sent to ministries in our homeland of Israel over $20,000 over the past two months. However, I believe that this war is just getting started. In a nutshell, commanders of the IDF were told not to plan for any summer vacations … and this is the time to think about a vacation after such a strenuous war ... however, you have to start realizing this physical war is really the manifestation of a historic spiritual war! Here's a takeaway from this experience... Like I said to my wife last year, we need to plan strategically for when we might be offline. Not because of anything we've done but due to potential internet censorship that could be on the horizon. What would you do in ministry … if you didn’t go online? How would you impact people? For us, I’m setting up outdoor events in the park and simply having old-school revival meetings! The King is coming … is your life ready .. if you’re like me, we’re so far away from where we need to be, but we’re striving for the high calling in Christ Jesus … in Yeshua HaMashiach … and we’re anticipating at the end of the age … well, done thou good and faithful servant! Be blessed .. continue to pray for us … Worthy is BACK! https://p3n9m3v6.stackpathcdn.com/uploads/emoticons/default_smile.png Your brother in the Lord, with much agape love, George 6 1 1 3 5 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Patticats Posted January 21 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 65 Topic Count: 575 Topics Per Day: 0.10 Content Count: 3,690 Content Per Day: 0.67 Reputation: 2,360 Days Won: 9 Joined: 02/18/2009 Status: Offline Popular Post Share Posted January 21 Thank God it's back!! Thank you George for all your hard working getting it back up. God bless!! 8 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post angels4u Posted January 21 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 56 Topic Count: 1,664 Topics Per Day: 0.20 Content Count: 19,764 Content Per Day: 2.39 Reputation: 12,164 Days Won: 28 Joined: 08/22/2001 Status: Offline Popular Post Share Posted January 21 Thank you George,you spend many hours over all those years fixing the forum, God knows your dedication for the site and to reach people for the Lord in these last days! 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post RdJ Posted January 21 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 66 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 1,094 Content Per Day: 0.35 Reputation: 613 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/11/2015 Status: Online Birthday: 05/25/1970 Popular Post Share Posted January 21 Oh pfew I thought I got banned. 5 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Tristen Posted January 21 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 9 Topic Count: 3 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 2,367 Content Per Day: 0.63 Reputation: 1,340 Days Won: 1 Joined: 01/26/2014 Status: Offline Popular Post Share Posted January 21 Thanks George, I appreciate your efforts here. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ayin jade Posted January 21 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 44 Topic Count: 6,178 Topics Per Day: 0.88 Content Count: 43,795 Content Per Day: 6.21 Reputation: 11,243 Days Won: 58 Joined: 01/03/2005 Status: Offline Popular Post Share Posted January 21 1 minute ago, Renskedejonge said: Oh pfew I thought I got banned. Lol me too. Especially when it said access denied george. Glad its up and running again. Thank you george. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marathoner Posted January 21 Group: Royal Member Followers: 16 Topic Count: 71 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 10,143 Content Per Day: 7.07 Reputation: 13,099 Days Won: 97 Joined: 05/24/2020 Status: Offline Share Posted January 21 All's well that ends well, @George. Good to see Worthy back and unscathed! We know what really happened, yes? It was @enoob57's fault. It's always nooby's fault, yes indeed. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Starise Posted January 21 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 13 Topic Count: 279 Topics Per Day: 0.21 Content Count: 13,083 Content Per Day: 9.76 Reputation: 13,563 Days Won: 149 Joined: 08/26/2020 Status: Offline Popular Post Share Posted January 21 Glad we're are back up and running. Thanks for the information on what cause the issue and for all that was done behind the scenes to get the server back up and running.. I feel I was taken to some other places I would not normally go and that wasn't bad, just that it didn't feel quite the same. 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Anne2 Posted January 21 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 7 Topic Count: 3 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 1,499 Content Per Day: 1.49 Reputation: 621 Days Won: 0 Joined: 07/29/2021 Status: Offline Popular Post Share Posted January 21 (edited) At first I thought censorship? I had no idea I was bungling things up by trying to open Worthy. Sorry George. Thanks for all you do, and you do alot. Some of us do not even think about how much. It is appreciated. Edited January 21 by Anne2 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post LearningToLetGo Posted January 21 Group: Senior Member Followers: 5 Topic Count: 37 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 717 Content Per Day: 0.35 Reputation: 660 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/21/2018 Status: Offline Popular Post Share Posted January 21 Welcome back! 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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