FamilyNet International continues to work behind the scenes to strengthen the reliability and long-term stability of the free hosting services we provide to Independent Baptist churches, missionaries, evangelists, and ministry works.
We are currently serving approximately 165 ministries through our web hosting ministry. These websites represent churches, missionaries, Bible ministries, outreach efforts, and Gospel works in many places. Because these sites are used to share the Gospel, provide church information, support missionaries, and communicate with believers and visitors, we take their availability seriously.
As part of our ongoing effort to improve reliability, we have now provisioned a warm backup server. This server is not intended to replace our main hosting server during normal operation. Rather, it is designed to serve as an additional disaster-recovery resource if a major server problem, provider outage, or other serious failure were ever to occur.
In simple terms, this gives us another prepared place where ministry websites can be restored if needed. We already maintain offsite backups, and this added server gives us a stronger recovery path by providing a ready environment for restoring accounts and testing recovery procedures. We have completed a successful JetBackup 5 recovery test, confirming that the backup and restore process is working properly.
This does not mean problems can never happen. No hosting environment can honestly make that promise. But it does mean we are taking prudent steps to reduce risk, improve recovery options, and provide better continuity for the ministries that trust us with their websites.
Our goal remains the same: to provide dependable, ministry-minded web services at no cost to Independent Baptist ministries, so they can focus on preaching the Word of God, reaching souls, supporting missions, and serving their communities.
We are thankful for the Lord’s provision and for the opportunity to continue serving these ministries in this way.
Bob Hoffman and — FamilyNet International
Missionaries to Cyberspace
