Stay Connected to Server - (always connected option?)

[D2149]

Hello!

I just purchased this neat little app to handle the uploading of updated web files to our weather station website.  Our weather software's own FTP upload process was causing issues for our web hosting provider, (was opening a new connection for every single file it uploaded), and being flagged by their new server security software and eventually blocking our IP address so we couldn't even connect to our website from a browser leave alone update our data.  While our weather software is a very powerful and reliable program, it is no longer supported since the company that produced it has gone out of business, and there are no viable alternatives on the market for OSX.   

So... In an effort to avoid having to literally close down our popular weather web site over this FTP upload problem, we decided to turn the FTP upload part of the software off and try Yummy FTP Watcher instead! 

We are VERY pleased to report that this pairing seems to be working really well most of the time.  Getting occasional file errors, but not a deal breaker.  Your app seems to eventually upload all the updated files within a reasonable period of time. Would like to get to the bottom of the cause of the errors, but we will hold off on that for now.

Anyway...

Our weather software updates the actual data files and various web graphics every 2 minutes, and places them in a specific upload folder that we have FTP Watcher monitoring, so by the time your app is finished with the 40 or so various html and jpg file uploads, it is just about time to upload it all again.

Seems like in our case, it might make more sense for your app to just keep a few FTP connections open all the time instead of logging off and then immediately logging back on again.  (We are talking like 15-20 seconds between sessions here)

After dealing with our web hosting provider's IP bans several times in less than a week, we want to make absolutely sure that we stay under the radar of their new security software on the server we post to.

Any chance of getting this added in a future version?  Or perhaps, is the feature already there and we haven't found it yet?

Thanks in advance!

[]Rick.
MADIS Weather Station D2149

[JD]

There isn't any such option currently, but I do understand why it's a problem if the connections are so frequent as to cause an IP ban. I would suggest that your server security software is being a little over sensitive, however there is a setting to configure the number of simultaneous connections Yummy makes : see the Transfers panel of the Preferences. From the sounds of it you're only using one Watcher so this will only use one connection … each transfer uses a new 'child' connection but that's how the FTP protocol works, and I can't change that! Otherwise, try reducing the setting to 1 (from the default of 5).

If it's the 'child' connection per transfer that's the issue perhaps you can switch to the SFTP protocol which doesn't do that at all : it re-uses the 'parent' connection. Ask your server provider if they support SFTP.

[D2149]

Thanks again Jason!

My web host "JUSTHOST.COM" is obviously a little too paranoid for their own good, and taking it out on there loyal customers! 

I am going to back the connections down to 3 and see if their stupid robot still has a problem with our connection frequency.

Thanks again and BRILLIANT LITTLE APP!  Two Thumbs up!