Optimising WD for PWS Dashboard

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Hi all, I noticed that Weather Display is putting a strain on my webserver, and my webmaster is getting shirty about it. I wonder if anyone has a guide to optimal settings for FTP upload? What I need to upload what I can bin etc. I worked out I can probably get away with updating most things every 5/10 minutes except the client raw and webcam.

my webserver is uploading to https://mm0zif.radio/current/WX/ although most access the data via MM0ZIF-WX: Local weather in Irvine, North Ayrshire ‣ MM0ZIF Amateur Radio and Weather Station.

Marcus

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The PWS_Dashboard only needs

  1. clientraw.txt every 2 → 5 minutes.
  2. webcam-image every ? minutes

There seems to be no other FTP-uploaded files in use by the dashboard scripts.

You are also using ecowitt/ecco_lcl.arr .
But that file is not used since July (Age 44 days 21 hours 56 minutes 59 seconds)
And that uses HTTP-upload, not FTP.

You are not using a cron-job so that does not add load either.

What other “Dashboard” files are you uploading and with what frequency?

Regards,
Wim

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I did visit your website twice with a few minutes between the visits.

Your website is unresponsive.
It took 46 seconds to get an answer but the processing on the server took only 0.9 second.

_test.php (24): Max memory used: 2 mb(2097152 bytes). Duration: 0.90948 seconds. PHP_version: 7.4.33

See attached screenshot:

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Seems the webserver is to busy to service a normal https request

Regards,
Wim

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I’ve asked the Server hosts to look into what the heck is going on, I’ve been questioning why things are so slow on their hosting :smiley: will update as I find out more.