Dear Hanspost and WeatherCat fans,
I don't think that the hosting is the problem. Manual FTP with Filezilla goes very quick and smoothly. I have a 150 mb connection and 10 mb upload, so that can't be the problem either.
I've also tried to upload to another website at another hosting company, but again exactly the same problem!
Well, that your FTP client can work with these services doesn't mean that WeatherCat can work with them.
I just remembered a problem that people have had with trying to upload using WeatherCat. There are two versions of the FTP protocol: active and passive. There is a nice description of the difference here:
http://slacksite.com/other/ftp.htmlI don't remember for sure, but I thought WeatherCat used only passive FTP. We would need Stuart Ball (the WeatherCat developer) to confirm one way or the other.
If the services that you are using don't support the version of FTP that WeatherCat uses, that would produce exactly the symptoms you describe.
You should be able to adjust the settings of your FTP client to be able to determine which FTP version it is using. If you can confirm that your web hosting provider doesn't support the version of FTP that WeatherCat uses, perhaps you can find out why from them.
This is driving me nuts!
I am thinking about a complete clean installation of Weathercat. I hope that I can find an description of how to do that on the support forum. Another option is to go back to version 1.2.1 and see if the problem is solved, but I don't know if that's possible.
You could try downgrading, but I suspect you won't see any difference. As Stu reported the FTP code hasn't changed since probably the initial release.
I also think that doing a clean install would be a complete waste of time. You wouldn't be changing anything.
Sorry that I cannot be of more help, but I suspect your real problem is a change in the FTP protocol perhaps driven by recent security concerns.
Hope this information will help you troubleshoot the problem.
Cheers, Edouard