Server outage - Marriage Missions International

On Saturday afternoon, February 20th, at about 2pm MST our server was essentially destroyed during a fire drill that went awry. We still don’t have complete details but our host (the company that maintains the server) was still unable to estimate when a solution would be in place as of Monday morning, February 22nd. Facing the prospect of being offline for longer than 48 hours, we decided at that point to switch to another host. We were fortunate enough to have recent backups of our website so, aside from a comment or two that was placed between early Saturday morning and the time the outage occurred later that day, we lost no data.

If you sent email to us while the site was down, it may still arrive as most email providers retry sending it for approximately 72 hours automatically. So you shouldn’t need to resend the email unless it was urgent.

We want to offer you a heartfelt apology for being gone so long! We understand that it is disconcerting, especially for those who are in crisis and seeking community. We waited as long as we could for the technicians in the data center where our server is housed to work out the situation. However, it became apparent that wouldn’t be forthcoming in an acceptable timetable given the nature of this site and its outreach to people in great need. So we took action. And we thank you for your patience and loyalty to Marriage Missions International.

Our new host assures us they have many contingency plans in place and we are not likely to face a repeat of the events of the past weekend.

May God bless you!

Steve & Cindy Wright
Marriage Missions International

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Rose says:

March 4, 2010 at 12:49 pm

(S.AFRICA) Dear Steve and Cindy, May God bless you both for your ministry. This site has been such a blessing to me. I felt I was all alone with my marriage problems but have come to realize that there are so many hurting souls out there. Satan is surely working full time in these last days, his plan is to destroy families the very foundation of Gods church. Thank you for all your Godly advice.

As hard as it may be and the sadness, loneliness and rejection I am feeling, I will hold onto Gods promises and know that he loves each and every one of us and will never forsake us. All we need to do is reach out and take his hand. I missed you and am so pleased your site is up and running again.

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