[thelist] More interesting news / NetIQ buys WebTrends for $1 Billion

[Daniel J. Cody]

Michael Buffington wrote:

> Price.com uses Webtrends Enterprise to parse our daily log files
> (200-400MB/day/site).  It takes about 12 hours total to download, parse, and
> generate the reports.  We have a box dedicated to just Webtrends reporting,
> with something like 512MB of ram and some heavy duty CPU's (dual)

exactly the same setup here, and the same results. The funny thing is, 
analog can go through about 1Gb of log files in about 30 seconds..


> I'd love to see a good alternative to Webtrends that can do it quickly and
> easily.

+1

> Also, for those with large log files, how are you managing those in the long
> term?
> 
> We're archiving ours on tape backups, but we're curious about what other's
> are doing.

Yup, we thrown them to tape monthly..

.djc.