You can do interesting things with data, in this case a Facebook engineer has taken all the Facebook friend relationships and mapped them out producing…
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The Blog of a Geek!
As a follow on from my post on Monit, I have compiled a selection of rules that can be used to monitor various services on…
With the recent release of PHP 5.2.14 the PHP Team has decided to end active support for this branch of PHP. This means there will…
One of the downsides to working on the internet, is that it never stops – it is a 24 hour a day, 365 day a…
It was found out that when Google’s Street View car was doing the rounds in Germany (and maybe other countries too) it was sniffing out…
Web statistics are a very important part of web site development and marketing. Every day you collect statistics for, you are gathering valuable information to use in your marketing strategy. There is nothing better than looking at a document full of graphs showing increases in users or traffic; however, reading them and understanding how to use them effectively are two very different things.
When collecting stats, you could install multiple different statistics systems for the same set of data but more often than not no two systems will absolutely agree and this is where the biggest problem lies.
While looking at my logs the other day, I noticed a lot of extra traffic from an external source for one of my sites, unsure…
“It is really important to spend time considering all the options when picking a web host for your shiny new website. When you launch your…
This assumes that you have 2 Linux machines / servers – one to backup to the other. To enable the script to automatically login to…