Comments on: 25.702% your base are belong to me! http://stats.mattfast1.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.mattfast1.com%2Farchives%2F2006%2F05%2F18%2F25702-your-base-are-belong-to-me%2F&seed_title=25.702%25+your+base+are+belong+to+me%21 These are the thoughts of Matt, unless otherwise indicated. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:58:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8-bleeding-edge hourly 1 By: mattfast1 http://stats.mattfast1.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.mattfast1.com%2Farchives%2F2006%2F05%2F18%2F25702-your-base-are-belong-to-me%2F&seed_title=25.702%25+your+base+are+belong+to+me%21#comment-1177 mattfast1 Sat, 20 May 2006 16:30:26 +0000 http://blog.mattfast1.com/archives/2006/05/18/25702-your-base-are-belong-to-me/#comment-1177 I like knowing as much as I can about my statistics, and that means having fairly recently-generated stats. I used to run everything once a day, but then I don't get any information about what's actually happening that day... which is bad, especially on a day like yesterday, when I keep getting a bunch of bad referers - when I start getting emails from Webalizer complaining about stuff that's going on, that's my warning bell. I can quickly SSH into my server right away and install a block. Your method of copying logs back to your home server and running AWStats is not feasible. It's not even feasible for me to run AWStats on my system against logs on Caesar, because with my internet connection (56k modem), I cannot automate network-related tasks, nor can I run a linuxbox and hope to have a connection. Anyway, I'm not too concerned... yet. Apparently, I don't have a lot of high CPU users sharing Caesar with me. I like knowing as much as I can about my statistics, and that means having fairly recently-generated stats. I used to run everything once a day, but then I don’t get any information about what’s actually happening that day… which is bad, especially on a day like yesterday, when I keep getting a bunch of bad referers - when I start getting emails from Webalizer complaining about stuff that’s going on, that’s my warning bell. I can quickly SSH into my server right away and install a block.

Your method of copying logs back to your home server and running AWStats is not feasible. It’s not even feasible for me to run AWStats on my system against logs on Caesar, because with my internet connection (56k modem), I cannot automate network-related tasks, nor can I run a linuxbox and hope to have a connection.

Anyway, I’m not too concerned… yet. Apparently, I don’t have a lot of high CPU users sharing Caesar with me.

]]> By: Scott http://stats.mattfast1.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.mattfast1.com%2Farchives%2F2006%2F05%2F18%2F25702-your-base-are-belong-to-me%2F&seed_title=25.702%25+your+base+are+belong+to+me%21#comment-1176 Scott Sat, 20 May 2006 09:24:52 +0000 http://blog.mattfast1.com/archives/2006/05/18/25702-your-base-are-belong-to-me/#comment-1176 AWstats is a pig. It doesn't just use CPU time when it generates reports, it uses quite a bit of CPU as when you are requesting those reports. How much traffic you are getting so you need to run AWstats once every hour? Or are you just so desperate to know about your stats? :) For me, I actually copy the access log files back to my home server every day, using ssh after the log has been rotated, and then run awstats locally just to save CPU time. AWstats is a pig. It doesn’t just use CPU time when it generates reports, it uses quite a bit of CPU as when you are requesting those reports. How much traffic you are getting so you need to run AWstats once every hour? Or are you just so desperate to know about your stats? :)

For me, I actually copy the access log files back to my home server every day, using ssh after the log has been rotated, and then run awstats locally just to save CPU time.

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