smartfart's Journal: My Struggles

Mr. C.
Last month my wife found out she might have cancer. We are awaiting test results, etc., but as of this point we don't really know anything. We are believing God that He will bring us through it, though. While Jesus was on this earth, He healed the sick everywhere He went. Please pray with us that He will stretch out His hand and grant healing to my wife.

Crash and Burn
My main server had been giving me trouble, and I had been looking for parts to put together a replacement (I can't afford new hardware at this point) for about 3 months. Last week I was given a motherboard and chip, and put them in a case I already had along with some RAM, etc., and put up the new box. I had everything copied over to the new box and had most of the services working correctly by Friday.

Friday evening, however, the building housing my server burned down, and all was lost, including my new server. Fortunately, I have the old box here at my house, and was able to secure another location having a fast enough connection to meet my needs, and I was able to commandeer their firewall box and press it into service as a host for all of my stuff on Monday. I've gotten most of the services working, but have been spending most of my time this week working with the business owner that lost all of his stuff in the fire, locating backups, purchasing a new server for his business, working with the telephone and data providers, etc. They are having to start their entire business over from scratch. At some point I'll have another box to put up at their new location. Possibly I will be able to fix the old box and reuse that one.