Statistics programs setup

[sonic]

Hi, I am a reseller on escape. Let me first put down the facts:

- dns lookup in statistics programs (for countries to be reported) consumes high amount of resourses
- Webalizer IS reporting countries (dns lookup is on by default)
- AWStats is NOT reporting countries (dns lookup is off by default)
- AWStats IS popular (http://forum.hostgator.com/viewtopic.php?t=77)
- Webalizer is NOT popular. It was even disabled on escape server before the move to the new datacenter (http://forum.hostgator.com/viewtopic.php?t=286)
- Not so many people seem to care about countries (http://forum.hostgator.com/viewtopic.php?t=783)

According to all the above, I am suggesting this: Disable dns lookup in Webalizer and enable dns lookup in AWStats.

Gator_Support, please comment.

Thanks

[GatorJustin]

I am going to move this to Suggestions and inform the decision makers of its presence so that they may view it and respond accordingly.

-Justin

[greenman]

My two cents:

AW Stats is the only stats program that I'm really interested in - it was one of the factors in choosing HostGator. I don't bother with with the other programs, so, the choice is: AW Stats or download raw logs multiple times per day.

Seems like in the big picture, it might be easier on the system to have a decent stats program online & save all that downloading.

Thanks for listening,

William