JavaScript WDL version 1.0.0 alpha.

Yerren · 12 January 2018 23:01

Dale Reid post:217:

Can someone who understands the way this stuff works let me know if having this running on my web server which I rent from GoDaddy, is consuming their computer time, or does it somehow get loaded onto the computer of the person viewing FreshWDL, and only receive the packets with the updated values to then display on the viewer’s local computer?

If several folks are looking at the same time, are there as many instances of this code running at GoDaddy, and it’s computer is painting a new visual at very pulse, heartbeat, or refresh (whatever the correct term is now)?

Just curious as to where the horsepower is coming from, and while most of the time even I won’t be looking at the page, there may be times when I leave it up running constantly or if there is interesting weather going on several local folks may be viewing. I just don’t want to get a note from GoDaddy that I’m eating up more of their computer time than I get as part of my monthly fee.

Just curious. Thanks. Dale

I think SaratogaWX explained it well, but just to summarise, the ‘horsepower’ comes from the user’s computer. The load on GoDaddy is very minimal!