Have you ever noticed that an IIS server seems to slowly eat disk space over time? If you’re hosting many sites, or a few high traffic sites, it might not be that slow to consume a big portion of your ...

In these sober post-dotcom crash days, we’re even more aware that the success of a web site is not based on the sheer quantity of hits but also their quality. Fortunately, all web server software ...

When someone first mentioned to me that reports created by running raw access logs through software such as Analog did not meet the needs of high level management, I was caught off guard. “What could ...

Want to know why your high-value pages aren’t getting indexed? Or why Google keeps crawling useless parameters over and over and over…but not your blog? Your server logs hold the answers. Yes, they’re ...

If you usually keep a known amount of hard-drive space clear, and suddenly find your system running low on space, a problem with the way the system handles log files may be to blame. You can use a ...

Log rotation, a normal thing on Linux systems, keeps any particular log file from becoming too large, yet ensures that sufficient details on system activities are still available for proper system ...

Log files. They're there for a reason -- to keep track of what goes on behind the velvet curtain of your operating system. When things go wrong, entries are added to those log files, so you can view ...

Learn how to use the Logrotate program to administer, back up, and monitor log files on Linux. Log files are the most valuable tools available for Linux system security. The logrotate program is used ...