Finally, the server’s back to its regular snappy self. I honestly feel very violated through this whole experience. Someone inflicted damage on me (the hacking of the server), and it affected numerous others. This wasn’t an accident, it was a malicious attack. My life has been almost entirely consumed with this incident for over two weeks now, and there is still residual affect.
Yesterday, we reloaded the OS, and wouldn’t ya know it, there were more complications. Websites and email were down for many people, and there was nothing I could do but wait for the techs to find the solution. I lost three customers, and it could be more. I don’t blame them, of course. I’d be tempted to leave a host with two incidents within a month (although they were both really the same incident spread out as we tried to recover from the first).
In the evening, I had done all the work I could do and most of the sites were back up and fully functional. My friends had a play opening up, and since all I had to do was wait on the techs, I decided to go. I could barely stay awake (I didn’t get hardly any sleep the night before when the reload was started). Right after the play, a friend I hosted the websites for called me and let me know the good news that all the minor glitches I couldn’t get fixed myself were taken care of!
The strange thing (and if you’re reading this far I appreciate it!), I had a real sense of the Holy Spirit’s presence at the beginning of the play and felt God tell me everything was working out with the server. I know I had several people praying for me consistently, and when I got the call I just smiled for a moment remembering that God had whispered to me. In the most difficult times of my life, God has let me know He’s there. I’ve never taken it to mean everything will work out the way I want it to or expect it to, but it’s been comforting to know God’s presence hasn’t left. When I went through my divorce, I had a profound moment where God had spoken to me in such a way that it could not have been my own imagination. I didn’t take it as a sign my wife was coming back to me, but it clearly let me know that nothing had taken God by surprise. And no matter how dark it seemed, the Holy Spirit was with me through it all.
Though this pails in comparison to divorce, it has been one of the hardest times of my life in recent memory. It’s nice to know God’s still there, with me through it all.
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