Hi,

A couple of months ago I purchased a weather station from Maplins and I use the free Cumulus software from http://sandaysoft.com/ to produce graphs and weather forecasts, etc. The software also incorporates a weather website and the means to upload it to a host server. Here's the problem - as well as asking for the host name, port number, username and password it also requires the directory. What is the directory for my www.tamworthweather.zxq.net website? Can anybody help please?

Kind regards,

John

we do not allow weather software on Zymic at all so if you do upload it your hosting account will be suspended right away

Could you please explain why you do not allow "weather software"? It seems a rather arbitrary restriction?

Steve

When I read the TOS for Zymic it mentioned pornography, spams, phishing, etc but no mention of a website giving the weather conditions in a particular part of the country. Why is giving the weather in Tamworth and a historical climatic record of the highs and lows worthy of having my account suspended?

Kind regards,

John

im telling you right now as an Zymic Trusted Hosting support member it is NOT allowed

All we're asking for is an explanation of why Zymic are opposed to weather information; it's baffling.

Steve

cause its NOT a webiste and it requires Remote Connections and all remote connections are disable

It's not a web site? Remote connections? Sorry, I don't understand.

Here's mine: http://sanday.zxq.net/

It shows the data from my weather station in my garden. How is that not a web site? What remote connections is it using?

Steve

klaatu: Your site is now suspended due to a weather script

We DO NOT allow Weather scripts on Zymic at all

OK, fair enough. It was just a few pages of HTML with my weather data on it. I guess this will just have to remain one of life's great mysteries. Some people have a phobia about spiders, Zymic have one about the weather. Let's see... that would be Meteorologophobia. Or something.

Bye.

klaatu why dont you use WAMP or XAMPP if you have a windows computer to host your weather site

Hello, just started here and stumbled on this thread; I understand "weather scripts" aren't allowed (and I'll respect that) but is it allowed to give "manually inserted" weather information if this information is only direction and speed of the wind and direction of the waves for various ports on the Spanish coasts?
My site will be about sailing and everything that has to do with that, and giving such information is of course very usefull for the visitors.
If not, can I provide a link to where such information can be found?
Sorry for this double question.

Kind regards,
Capricornsailin

Dan hasn't really given much explanation to the reasoning behind it so I will attempt to shed some light on the situation. Zymic does not allow weather scripts due to the nature of automated requests the application generates. Weather scripts require a constant request pattern to the server where the data is stored or created and this thunderous amount of requests can be a huge contributer to the server load.

I cannot see the issue with manually inserting the data or have static pages for it so it is allowed.

Thanks for your answer Jacob, much appreciated.
The way I'd like to organise my information is as follows:
The Spanish Institute of Ports publishes wind and wave prediction charts like the one you can see here:
Barcelona chart
These charts are updated about 4 times a day by them.
What I want to do is take the data in these charts, transform the data into another layout and then publish that layout with the data in them when the visitor clicks on the link from the city or rather port he wants information about.
So the complete process would be:
1. Visitor clicks the link or button of a specific port.
2. That click generates a request to the relevant chart.
3. The data from the chart are used to recalculate some values (e.g. meters per second for the wind speed is transformed into knots)
So the amount of requests is really limited, and certainly not constant and must all be manually triggered
4. The recalculated data are fed into a customized layout and displayed

I might add some graphical elements, e.g. a wind vane that turns quicker when wind speed increases, but those wouldn't generate any requests either since these would use data that are already retrieved.

Do you think that would be allowable?
Thanks in advance for your answer.

Due to the safe mode restrictions in place on Zymic in order to protect our servers as well as the users, you will not be able to establish a remote connection.

Ah, I see... Ok, fair enough. I'll have to think about another way to upload those data. I guess I can put them all into one daily data file externally and then do a "manual FTP upload and have the website load them there locally... Would that be alright?