Florian Lindner wrote: > > Please be sure to have a DNS name for your GWC that you can remove when > > you no longer want to run it. > That could more be a problem. You talk about clients still hitting the host > although there is no server anymore? I think I have a hostname which I can at > least remove for some time.
The first rule of GWebCache club is: Use a dedicated hostname. The hostname will be contaminated for eternity. There's no other way than DNS to get rid of client requests. Actually, thanks to the incompetence of Sun Microsystems Java clients will keep your server busy for a while in any case, as the JVM caches DNS lookups until the end of all days. Fortunately, most people don't keep their clients running that long but I've certainly seen a few that came back weeks after the hostname had been removed from DNS or changed to a different host. However, don't be scared, that's really just a few clients. If you have a DynDNS.org account I can probably transfer one of the hostnames I used previously to your account. This way you would more or less immediately see how much bandwidth/memory/CPU it takes and older clients would find it as well. > AFAIK Ghostwhirecrab produces logfiles in the Apache combined format. > So I can use tools like awstasts to analyse the logs? Is there any > special setup for awstats around? Yes, the access log should be compatible with any Apache logfile analyzer but I don't know whether anyone actually uses awstats for it. -- Christian
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