Summary: Descriptions of the built-in statistics programs available for use in the Shared Web Hosting environment.
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These programs are system-wide programs and cannot be custom configured for one customer.
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Urchin 5 - Urchin provides you with the most detailed statistical summaries, and is the most adept at handling large amounts of data. Urchin is your best statistics package accessible from your Control Panel.
Urchin compiles statistics from the log files stored in the stats directory of your account. Urchin contains up to twelve months of processed log files in UDB files.
Urchin is available for accounts on our shared plans. If you do cannot access Urchin in your account, call Sales.
- Raw log files - If you prefer not to use a statistics package, you still can view the raw log files generated by the Web server. This raw data is compiled into text documents that are accessible via FTP or through your Control Panel.
The raw logs files are stored in the stats directory of your account as .gz files (the UNIX version of ZIP compression known as GZIP). The logs are kept for up to 3 months. If you would like to retain the logs longer, FTP a copy of the logs to your local PC. The logs are not owned by your User ID and do not count against the disk quota for your account.
For information about viewing your raw log files, go to:
Although the statistics packages above offer some data transfer monitoring, they are all limited to monitoring only "HTTP" traffic. Thus, while very useful for determining Web site "hits," they do not provide a full accounting of your data transfer totals. For example, those statistics programs do not monitor data transfers resulting from anonymous FTP downloads and uploads, nor do they monitor e-mail usage.