Dear Jeff and WeatherCat
"avant-garde" types,
I'm taking a Guess this would be the Forum to ADD my Question?..
Hey ALL, Hope everyone is good. I have 2 or 3 Synology NAS here running and was going to put my
Web-Page on the one in particular, I have WeatherCat feeding a folder on the Mac-Mini for the Page.
Okay lets pause a bit to allow people to catch up. NAS stands for (I believe) Network Attached Storage. Here is the Wikipedia article about it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network-attached_storageJust in case anyone is in the market for such a thing here is the Synology page for selecting such a device:
https://www.synology.com/en-us/support/nas_selectorThe
smallest device they sell is designed for
1-10 users and less than
12 TB of storage space. So this is a substantial device that will cost you on the order of $200 before you install any disk space. I don't know how many of us are into this sort of serious network storage.
Would (or has anyone Thought) of how you might integrate or get the Data to a NAS or Run WeatherCat on the
NAS for something like this? The Main Idea would be to eliminate the Mac-Mini and just have the NAS run the page I guess?
YES, Even the mini is room in here I'm Running out of as bad as that sounds...
WeatherCat is designed as a standard Mac application and stores it data as Apple has insisted in their user-interface specifications. It doesn't have any way to put either web pages or data on a drive outside of the Mac it is running on. The only potential exception to this is if you are running an SQL server. I believe the server can be anywhere on your network and WeatherCat would be able to access it. However, that would indeed require you to come up with a completely different web page generation mechanism. I'm sure that can be done but you'll have to decide if that is worth your effort especially when WeatherCat has some very nice web templates already available. Of course you can move data using UNIX scripts and do this fast enough so that your servers have data as fast as WeatherCat generates it.
However, before going to such extremes perhaps a bit of common sense is worth applying. I have 8 years worth of WeatherCat data and that totals to less than 1 GB of disk space. All other files are temporary and the disk space does get reused. WeatherCat really doesn't seem like the sort of application where moving the data to an central server makes much sense. Any modern hard drive has more than enough space to handle all your weather station processing need. Why make the actual processing of weather data more complicated than is really practical? I'm sure you'll find plenty of other uses for your NAS devices.
THANKS ALL, and hope Thanksgiving, Christmas, Boxing-Day, Etc. are all good for everyone..
Well I do hope you don't mind getting a reply before
"turkey day," and for most of us this is getting a bit ahead of things.
As for me, I will express my disappointment that the second-coming did not occur before this year's start of the
Curse of Oak Island television series. I'm still cautiously hopeful that things will be straightened out in an
absolutely miraculously way and
soon! At this point there doesn't seem to be any realistic alternative!
Cheers, Edouard