Picking the Best Web Server Platform
Internet Expo, June 1996
David Strom
Panelists
- David Strom, moderator
- Robert Denny, O'Reilly & Associates
- Lee Levitt, Process Software
- Bernie Coyne, COAST Software
Summary
- Criteria for selecting features
- Scale and performance issues
- Analyzing log files and visitors
Criteria for selecting features
- Remote administration
- Ease of setup
- Flexibility in handling logs
- Search tools bundled/integrated
- APIs, security supported
Scale and performance issues
- Latency of delivering pages
- CPU usage usually high
- Webstone doesn't tell entire story
Analyzing log files and visitors
- Common log format and IIS
- What a log file tells you
- IP address
- Date and time
- Pages, elements visited
What a log file doesn't tell you
- Who is really behind that IP address
- "Quality time" viewing your pages
- Proxy server visits are ignored
- Search robot inflate visits
Third-party log analysis programs