As you know, Webalizer stats are usually updated once a day, when using a Directadmin server. What to do, if you need more current stats? Here are some solutions (work good for me on CentOS 5). If you need to update all server accounts, just type in the following command as root: echo “action=tally&value=all” >> [...]

How to Install and Configure wtop – Apache Web Server Log Analyser wtop is really cool application for web server log analysis and to see server stats at a glance. It also has powerful log grepping capability. It is just like ‘top’ for your webserver It can find out number of searches or signups per [...]

Apachetop is a curses-based top-like display for Apache information, including requests per second, bytes per second, most popular URLs, etc. Apachetop watches a logfile generated by Apache (in standard common or combined logformat, although it doesn’t (yet) make use of any of the extra fields in combined) and generates human-parsable output in realtime.

Following are the logs files on a cPanel server for different services:

These are some services I would normally turn off on web servers. NOTE: usage may vary. gpm — mouse mdmonitor — monitor raid devices netfs — nfs, samba etc… autofs — automount, nfs, cd etc… kudzu — detect new hardware restorecond — monitor selinux file context mcstrans — mandatory access control selinux translation There may [...]