I might name drop it, I like to see the name on other sites, it some how makes me feel more like a legitimate site owner. I still have trouble believing what poal has become in its short life.
Do you have traffic numbers yet?
No, I meant to try setting up the one you recommended but life has gotten in the way so far. I have started exploring different methods of doing it, I could run it on the same VPS as poal but I don't think I have too and I wouldn't want to eat up resources on that VPS.
If you just want stats - and not as many analytical features, AWStats and Webalizer are both pretty light. I don't believe you need to use them with cPanel, or anything - I'm pretty sure they stand alone and just pull from the server logs, either by cron or when you hit the update button.
I confess, I haven't actually played with either one (at the server admin level) in a long time and my experience is limited to installing them along with cPanel.
I'm actually trying to move in a sort-of-opposite direction. I'm trying to get as much as I can off a VPS and pushing it to shared hosting where I can. I simply don't have the time to manage all that myself and I can only automate so much. (I'm a pretty big fan of automating stuff.)
Fortunately, both the playguitar.gq and musicfor.us sites are already on shared hosting and both companies are exceptionally reliable.
I thought the playguitar.gq site was with a host that was over-selling (due to the disk full error and outage I experienced the other day) but that turned out to be someone's site had had issues that resulted in it filling the disk space up. I guess they've taken steps to make our individual disk space be individual partitions - which means that shouldn't be a problem in the future.
Which kinda sucks. I quite enjoyed the downtime! I was really hoping it'd stay down for all of Labor Day weekend and that I could take the whole weekend off!
Do you at least know what your bandwidth totals look like?
Not having stats would drive me batshit crazy. I don't really care (much) about the quantity, but I do love knowing about the actual numbers. I love me some numbers! I'm not kidding. I fucking love numbers!
For a while, I had another site but it was on a free webhost. They had no stats and I didn't notice until after I'd done all the work. It might actually have been the lack of stats that made me disinterested in the site and stop writing. I'm not kidding. I love numbers that much. I check my numbers weekly - sometimes more often.
It's not really about the total number - it's about knowing that it's read and the work is seen by people. Also, it's about numbers! I love numbers like a spinster lady loves cats.
You can also cheat.
Your server will be saving traffic logs. It's what web servers do! I don't recall what you're using for server software (Apache, maybe?) but I'm 99.972361% confident that your server saves logs - unless you disabled it. They are, after all, pretty damned helpful.
You can just use those logs! The phrase you're looking for is "web log analysis." You can just download 'em from your VPS and run the software on those logs - there's tons of different applications to do this.
I'm pretty sure one of these can be smashed into a suitable method - without actually adding to the VPS overhead:
https://www.cyberciti.biz/open-source/7-awesome-open-source-analytics-weblog-analysis-softwares/
There's also this:
https://www.findbestopensource.com/tagged/log-analysis
Hmm...
I gotta get some work done on the musicfor.us site, else is gonna crack the whip!
I really am taking most of today off, but I wanna get that attended to seeing as I'm not doing anything important. I don't even have band practice until Saturday.
I already even did my guitar practice! I didn't go to the farm this morning, so I was online pretty early 'cause I'd already done my day's practice.
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