I just finished my latest web application project: TweeFlood. For those of you on Twitter, TweeFlood is a way to see how much you and your friends tweet. It displays statistics for how often your friends tweet per year, month, day and hour. Try it out and follow @TweeFlood.
I’ve been using Media Temple for web hosting for a while. Like any other host, they have their advantages and disadvantages. One of the biggest problems with Media Temples is that their basic grid-server (gs) package only allows for very simple statistics gathering using Urchin. It is so simple that it combines hit counts from all websites into one graph unless users purchase additional grid-server units. Although Media Temple provides raw access logs, the way virtual hosts have been setup causes difficulty when attempting to use their logs with a log analyzer.
The following tutorial goes through how to install and configure the free and open source web statistics program Awstats to be used with Media Temple’s grid-servers to provide analytic data from the Apache logs per each individual domain.
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