This afternoon I migrated the web service to another provider (a much more stable and high performance server), unfortunately the migration had to be done in a very short time: this means that there is not so much data. I hope no "good" user will be catched by this ban, in case this should happend, please write me an email, I will try to unban you ASAP. I never tought I would ever put such a limit on this website. Now the website accepts only few connections per minute, if, by mistake, you exceed this limit, your IP address will be banned for 2 hours.
So, very hardly, I found a couple of hours this afternoon to stop him and prevent similar attacks. So he created this script and runned it slowing all the website and the database, the whole server. Most of you also have the chance to know that just by writing me an email I send all the data they need (if I have it!).īut this guy didn't want to ask, he wanted the data now. I mean, who will target a COMPLETELY FREE WEBSITE that offers meteorological data? But this guy is lucky, because my time is very limited, also is lucky because I have never put in place defensive actions by attack like this. This guy is not so smart, so he made his actions very clear to me since yesterday. So there is this guy (let's imagine is a guy, ok?), a german guy (I'm basing the assumption looking at his IP), that is trying to download most of my METAR database using some scripts. A story made by a person that don't get satisfied by something, he/she want all, he/she want now. Unfortunatly this is a long story for which I will not write today, please believe me that I am working for you, something will arrive, it's just that I can't tell you when.Īnyway, today I am going to tell you another little story.
Avation wx update#
I know a lot of time passed since I promised you an update that never arrived. Please do not run automatic jobs/scripts/crawlers etc!
Avation wx zip#
If someone needs lot of meteorological data, please write me an email and I will try to pack all the date, zip it and send it back to you.
Once again I have to state that this is a completely free project (for which everyone is encourage to make a donation.) so I have very limited hardware resources. Update about: use of this service I would like to publicly thank the person that was behind the problems of the last days, because this person came to me apologizing for the issues caused. I discovered that this was caused by a different behaviour in a recent update of Chrome browser (and all browsers using Chrome engine). I have received several emails reporting a website malfunction during last weeks.
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