Comments on: FireStats Data Burned Our Blog (A Caution to Other Bloggers)

By: Michael Mol

Michael Mol — Fri, 08 May 2009 07:22:28 +0000

@Seleria: GA doesn’t allow you to download the raw data (I’ve got apache logs I can fall back on for that), but you can export any report or view you can build as CSV or XML, and even have them emailed to you automatically. I did that so I could build a couple reports that I couldn’t figure out how to do using their data.

By: Diego

Diego — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:54:32 +0000

Great to have you back! And congratulations on reaching this important milestone.

As a blogger with over 2 years of experience (dang, slipped into a Horioism there) and next-to-zero techie knowledge – even HTML is still mostly Greek to me – I find that my noob status in matters technological confers a critical benefit: I’m not tempted to tweak with the defaults because I don’t know how. End result is a plain-as-heck site, but a pretty stable one.

By: moritheil

moritheil — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 20:25:56 +0000

Happy second aniversary! It’s nice to see a metapost about the more technical aspects of blogging.

By: Seleria

Seleria — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 11:53:41 +0000

@Kairu Ishimaru We stopped using the FireStats plugin altogether at Maestro�s request. And, I just added that image very last minute

@Panther We�re glad to be back. I�ll try to look into that GoStats. I miss the real time stats that come along with integrated systems though.

@Kabitzin Before, we used GA in parallel with FireStats. Now, we just soley rely on GA. It is quite troubling that a lot of WP plugins misuse server resources so much. I wonder if we should pool together and come up with a list of �safe� plugins for co-anibloggers to use.

@Michael Mol Hmm� yeah, GA doesn�t provide a way for users to download their data from them. They do provide a multitude of tools to manipulate the data.

@ghostlightning @TheBigN @TJ @foomafoo @tflops Thanks! Hope we�ll enjoy another fruitful year of blogging and thank you for always delighting us with your company

@Omry Thanks for your recommendation on the optimized FireStats setup. I believe we were using the old version, I�m not sure because it was my co-author who was managing the site for the better part of the year.

@Omisyth LOL. Yeah, sometimes it is hard. But, Maestro and AB are always quick to remedy these small hiccups.

By: tflops

tflops — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:18:36 +0000

I’m sorry to hear that, oh well, Happy belated 2nd Anniversary.

By: Omisyth

Omisyth — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:11:56 +0000

Happy Birthday! Ah the advantages of low-maintenace wordpress

By: foomafoo

foomafoo — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 08:05:00 +0000

I suggest you guys to just use google analytics. Belated 2nd Anniversary too!

By: Omry

Omry — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 06:10:19 +0000

Hi,
I am the author of FireStats.

sorry to hear about your incident.
as you noticed – there is a built in feature to compact old records automatically. also – if your have been using an old version it would have definitely created more load on the server than it should have.

for best performance and storage efficiency, use the latest firestats on mysql 4.1.14 or newer to allow archiving support in FireStats.
mysql 5.x is recommended though.

I have been running FireStats on my own server for 3 years now, and it does not create any performance issues with over 2 million hit stored using around 200mb of disk space (you can see actual tables size inside FireStats settings tab).

By: TJ

TJ — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 02:12:26 +0000

Yeah, I notcied a couple of animeblogger.net blogs seemed to have gotten hit by the 500 errors. Glad you guys are back though and happy belated anniversary .

By: TheBigN

TheBigN — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:47:45 +0000

That does suck. But glad to see you back. And happy belated second anniversary. :3