Your business probably depends on obtaining detailed
information about your Web site traffic. Our VPS v2 Virtual Server system enables you to obtain
all the statistical information you need to know about usage of your Web site.
Analyzing Logs
To make any sense of the actual data logged in your VPS v2 Virtual Server,
you need a log file analysis program to process and analyze it for you. You can
find an overview of traffic analysis at:
There are many server side programs that will analyze Web
server log files in-place and then create HTML, text, or even e-mail reports of
virtual Web server traffic. They are configured for easy installation and are
free of charge.
If your Web site has a high traffic load, you may want to
consider purchasing a client side application to reduce the load on your VPS v2 Virtual Server.
Managing Logs
Log files accumulate very quickly and take up significant
server disk space. To manage logs efficiently, you need to decide whether to
archive them or delete them on a regular basis.
syslog is a powerful feature that automatically rotates
the logs for archival, to ensure that your disk quota is not negatively
affected. The main configuration file is syslog.conf in the /etc directory,
that generates log files found in /var/log.
rotatelogs is a wrapper you can include in the log
definitions in the Web server configuration file, /www/conf/httpd.conf. rotatelogs
clears out Web log files. See “Rotating and Clearing Log Files” for more information.
cron is a general
purpose application that can be configured to feed log files to one of the
three server side analysis programs (such as Analog, http-analyze, Webalizer)
on an hourly, daily, weekly, monthly basis, from which a stats report is
generated. See "Using the cron Scheduler" for more information. |
