I wondered if anyone could tell me whether its possible to update my personal website with with an esp8266 module, in the same way I can update thingspeak using the esp8266 module?
I end up getting confused with all the information available when tying to work out if it's possible. However, if it is possible, I want to be able to use an esp8266 module to update my website with data from sensors that will be located at various farms in Spain, so I can make a database of the information the sensors produce.
I don't expect a full description of what I need to do if it is possible, but would be grateful for any information that can steer me on the right path to achieving the above.
My website is with godaddy and I use wordpress to edit it. If a server is required in order for me to receive information from the esp8266, could I use my raspberry pi for that?
A server has some scripts. A client makes GET requests to execute those scripts, and get data back from the server. A browser is a client.
Wordpress is an application that knows how to make appropriate GET (or POST) requests, to make the scripts on the server do appropriate things.
It is unlikely that the server has scripts that can be executed by the Arduino-as-client, to put data in a database, where the browser/client can access it.
You could purchase your own domain, and get a decent web hosting company to host it. They would allow you to put scripts on their server, that would allow the Arduino to make GET requests to execute one of the scripts that stores data in a database.
You could develop other scripts that accessed data in the database, and displayed data in a table displayed by a browser, or in some other way.