Site Updates
July 10th, 2024
All of our sites have now been moved to a new server. Everything now appears to be working.
July 9th, 2024
Our site is scheduled to be moved to a new server today. Our hosting company, Websitesource, is moving us to a more modern hosting environment. Once that happens we will need to upgrade our DNS at Cloudflare, our domain registrar. Expect outages for up to a day or two when the switch occurs.
Before the move we deleted 95% of our site's content so that our hosting company had to move less. (around 17,000 files to move rather than around 700,000) Data before 2024 is currently not available in the recon and model systems. I wanted to recreate all the data so there was no sense in having them move it all. I downloaded all the storm data from the NHC's ATCF archive and will update that data for all storms other than invests. That requires recreating all the data offline and then uploading it back. I'm in the process of creating the model data offline to add back once the server move is complete. It will take time to update everything.
Before the move we deleted 95% of our site's content so that our hosting company had to move less. (around 17,000 files to move rather than around 700,000) Data before 2024 is currently not available in the recon and model systems. I wanted to recreate all the data so there was no sense in having them move it all. I downloaded all the storm data from the NHC's ATCF archive and will update that data for all storms other than invests. That requires recreating all the data offline and then uploading it back. I'm in the process of creating the model data offline to add back once the server move is complete. It will take time to update everything.
July 8th, 2024
To make our site move easier on our hosting company, all recon and model data before this year has been deleted. Within a few weeks, this data will be added back.
July 6th, 2024
Our site will likely be migrating to a new server on Tuesday, July 9th. Our hosting company will move our site to a new server with an upgraded hosting platform. I have scheduled it after Beryl makes landfall to minimize the disruption. Expect for some things to not be available.
This is a long needed upgrade and is at the same cost as I am paying now. I might, to make things easier for my hosting company, delete a lot of the older model and recon data so they don't have to move it. Then I will upload it myself again. We'll see. I have backed up 22.4 gigabytes of data, for a total of 699,629 files that make up the site. (the model and recon systems create a lot of files!)
I have a plan to reduce the number of files the model system generates. Rather than generate a Google Earth file for model swaths, at some point in the future it will be created on demand client side. This is going to take a long time to do however as I need to make a lot of other changes to the model system. It could be a year or more before I upgrade the model system with that and other changes. (such as to be mobile friendly) The model swath files are taking up a lot of space due to having to create the circle piece for every position and having twice as many depending on if the swaths are filled or not. An on demand option might allow you to choose whether you want them filled when you download it. Or maybe you could still generate both in the same file. I'll have to see how much memory that takes client side to do.
In the past few days I have made some updates to the radar database, including the ability to choose the radar site circle size. I also plan to allow you to change the color in the future so that depending on the basemap you use you can see the dots better. Eventually I will also allow changing the color for radar ranges.
This is a long needed upgrade and is at the same cost as I am paying now. I might, to make things easier for my hosting company, delete a lot of the older model and recon data so they don't have to move it. Then I will upload it myself again. We'll see. I have backed up 22.4 gigabytes of data, for a total of 699,629 files that make up the site. (the model and recon systems create a lot of files!)
I have a plan to reduce the number of files the model system generates. Rather than generate a Google Earth file for model swaths, at some point in the future it will be created on demand client side. This is going to take a long time to do however as I need to make a lot of other changes to the model system. It could be a year or more before I upgrade the model system with that and other changes. (such as to be mobile friendly) The model swath files are taking up a lot of space due to having to create the circle piece for every position and having twice as many depending on if the swaths are filled or not. An on demand option might allow you to choose whether you want them filled when you download it. Or maybe you could still generate both in the same file. I'll have to see how much memory that takes client side to do.
In the past few days I have made some updates to the radar database, including the ability to choose the radar site circle size. I also plan to allow you to change the color in the future so that depending on the basemap you use you can see the dots better. Eventually I will also allow changing the color for radar ranges.