Dear WeatherCat fans,
This morning my web hosting provider had "
issuez" and WeatherCat started to be unable to upload all the files associated with my weather website in the 15 minute interval between updates. WeatherCat is amazingly robust. It just kept adding files to the queue and when I got back from the morning shopping errands there was quite a queue.
This problem seems quite rare in general and perhaps I'll have to change provider (
shucks, I thought GoDaddy was better than this! ) However, the Internet seems to be getting more and more congested, so I thought I should toss the problem out as perhaps a "put on the back burner" issue.
One possible thing that could be done is to have WeatherCat check if it has successfully uploaded all the files from the last custom web generation before starting the next. I don't know if its easy enough to implement to be worth the effort.
Another possibility would be to add some AppleScripting capability. So that an AppleScript could to stop the custom web generation. Then AppleScript could be used as a test bed to explore different ways to deal with the backlog.
I had another idea that may or may not be a good. I ultimately turned off custom web generation until WeatherCat managed to empty the queue. Having to go back to the preferences to do that seemed a little awkward. Would folks like to have an "on-off" button next to each service provided by WeatherCat? That way if you see a problem with any service, you can quickly disable it?
Obviously, no clear ideas here. I thought I would toss out my experiences for everyone to ponder a bit. Perhaps this won't be a common problem so it is a non-issue. On the other hand, if Internet congestion does get worse, all of us will have had a chance to "stew the matter a bit."
Comments from the WeatherCat faithful most welcome!!
Cheers, Edouard
P.S. Obviously one thing I should try to do is try to reduce the size of what I am uploading. I would like to see what Server-Side Includes could do to only upload what has actually changed. However, I'm behind on the AppleScripts, so don't know when I could take that project on.