>From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx >[mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Steven Stern >Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2005 11:12 AM >To: For users of Fedora Core releases >Subject: Re: WebTrends replacement > > >David Cary Hart wrote: >> On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 11:20:49 -0600 >> Steven Stern <subscribed-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> opined: >> >> >>>Claude Jones wrote: >>> >>>>A previous employee had purchased WebTrends to monitor our Website >>>>with. I now inherit this task, and I'm wondering if there's an open >>>>source alternative that people like. They're hitting us for a $1300 >>>>support renewal, and I'm not convinced its really needed. I'm >>>>looking at the various projects out there, but is there anyone >>>>familiar with WebTrends and the oss alternatives who has some >>>>observations they could share on the subject? FWIW, our website is >>>>hosted on an IIS server. >>> >>>Have you looked at awstats? No one was using the advanced features >>>of webtrens for our sites. I replaced it with awstats and they're >>>happy with it. >>> >> >> He has a windows server running IIS. BTW, I suspect (judging from my >> logs) that there is a new awstats exploit du jour (due to >the amount of >> activity related to aws). >> > >I'm running awstats on both Linux and Windows machines. The hits on >awstats in my logs seem to be for the last set of vulnerabilities. > >-- > > Steve > The last time I ran awstats on a windows iis server (per 4 months ago), it would take forever to process the log files (because logs are maintained over MANY files) and it got to a point where the waiting html page would timeout or the processing script seems to want to run to infinity. Awstats finally got to a point where it was no longer usesful. I hope the design of awstats log processing has recently changed before I will consider it worth my time. Dan -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.1/206 - Release Date: 12/16/2005
