Jordan Langelier 827846 Posted December 22, 2011 at 08:34 AM Posted December 22, 2011 at 08:34 AM AwfulWeather.Org is down. I designed this application to provide sim pilots with information as to where the worst weather in the world was for those interested in flying in bad weather. I never have, and never will, put advertising on any of the pages or charge for access. I am on an austerities budget and cannot justify spending money on anything non-essential, including this hobby of mine. So it's down unless someone wants to see it on the internet. If anyone wants to see this application back on the internet, and has a Linux/Unix based web server, let me know. Note that I don't think it needs to have a top-level domain name (e.g. "awfulweather.org"). I think it would be fine to run as part of some other web site, in a sub-directory/sub-domain kind of thing. People who want these data are not going to avoid it just because it does not have a top level domain name. I would need to be able to have a shell account to install/maintain/improve the application, and file transfer capability. The account must be able to FTP "get" (for getting the weather data from NOAA) and have Perl. Cron jobs will need to run three times an hour to get the weather data, then a job runs to index the data. A script also runs once an hour to calculate whether the sun has risen or set at the airfields which does some celestial calculations, but only once an hour and it ran only for about 10 seconds on my last host. The application uses Perl CGI scripts for user access... these scripts were getting about a hundred hits a day and each hit ran on the CPU for about a second.... in other words, this application does not require a ton of bandwidth or CPU. Please message me if you can help me out on this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jordan Langelier 827846 Posted December 23, 2011 at 01:19 AM Author Posted December 23, 2011 at 01:19 AM I've found a host. Long live Awful Weather! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Sequeira 1192651 Posted December 23, 2011 at 02:59 AM Posted December 23, 2011 at 02:59 AM Good to hear, and please provide a link. Funny I should come across this post, because I had logged onto VatSim to post a question pointing to me this kind of website, if one even existed. Great news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jordan Langelier 827846 Posted December 23, 2011 at 03:31 AM Author Posted December 23, 2011 at 03:31 AM Good to hear, and please provide a link. Funny I should come across this post, because I had logged onto VatSim to post a question pointing to me this kind of website, if one even existed. Great news. I will. It should be up in two to four days. URL is to be determined. Update on this... my patron (who contacted me outside of this forum, so I'll go ahead and talk about him in the third person ; ) is on vacation, and has just given me FTP access to a server. However, that's going to make installation difficult seeing as the application is "programmer friendly" to install and really needs to be installed and configured using a shell prompt (which I don't have currently). So this is going to take more time than I had anticipated. Just updating status here, since I said "two to four days". The good news is, I have written code to include TAF weather forecasts, which makes hunting for bad weather much more fruitful and the application much more useful as a whole. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jordan Langelier 827846 Posted January 10, 2012 at 12:03 PM Author Posted January 10, 2012 at 12:03 PM Anyone monitoring this for news on the revival... This is not going to happen My hopeful patron runs a business which has a server, and was trying to do a good deed by giving me an FTP account and a "go ahead" but he evidently did not really understand what is required to run a CGI script on a web server, so this is a no-go. Oh well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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