Historical interest only; I no longer have web pages hosted at doc.ic.ac.uk.
doc.ic.ac.uk has been running the Analog log analyser for a while now. I wonder how many hits my home directory has been getting?
The logs (at 2001-05-28) show:
Directory Report
Listing directories with at least 0.1% of the traffic, sorted by the amount of traffic.
reqs: %bytes: directory
-------: ------: ---------
80846: 30.73%: /~rah99/
1703726: 8.01%: /~epa98/
30531: 5.32%: /~rwkl97/
181673: 4.96%: /~dbh/
1593415: 4.63%: /~nd/
4756103: 4.60%: /lab/
2171755: 2.71%: /~ih/
1871564: 2.21%: [root directory]
5932: 1.80%: /~ism98/
1279: 1.70%: /~pyn97/
815081: 1.46%: /studentphotos/
So I come second in bytes transferred. I don't know why that
should be, I don't have many large files (my quota is only 100
megabytes). Perhaps it has something to do with requests like
these in the server logs:
click-cl4-cache1.ilford.mdip.bt.net - - [19/Nov/2000:23:08:13 +0000] "GET /~epa98/vol/bitbucket/root/epa98/root/fbs/Coldplay-Yellow.mp3 HTTP/1.0" 200 303734
That's from when I had a symlink from my home directory to a
personal directory in /vol/bitbucket/, a big
storage area for students. There was then a symlink back to
the root of bitbucket, from where you could access anything in
the whole area (including my directory, and the symlink it
contained, and so on - the request above has gone through the
symlink twice). This symbolic link really annoyed Windows
users who were accessing the directory via Samba and using
Windows' depth-first file finder :-). Because of possible
copyright troubles, I have removed this link. (I also had a
symlink to the sysadmins' directory of useful files,
containing Adaptec drivers, and it was that which caused the
problem.)
So if MP3 downloads helped to push my home directory up into second place, I wonder what is causing the big gap between me and the first placed user, rah99? Another look at the logs:
File Type Report
(Go To: Top: General Summary: Monthly Report: Daily Summary: Hourly Summary: Domain Report: Organisation Report: Status Code Report: File Size Report: File Type Report: Directory Report)
Listing extensions with at least 0.1% of the traffic, sorted by the amount of traffic.
reqs: %bytes: extension
-------: ------: ---------
8129: 22.12%: .avi [AVI movies]
4456: 8.05%: .mpg [MPEG movie]
4269208: 7.04%: .html [Hypertext Markup Language]
2961790: 6.07%: .jpg [JPEG graphics]
5849669: 6.03%: .gif [GIF graphics]
Enough said.
I'm also second place in number of requests served, behind Ian Harries. But I shall one day be victorious!
It's pretty handy to export your home directory as a web page - you get free online backups provided by Google. The only snag is they don't cache binary files, but I plan to write a CGI script to give a view of my home directory and uuencode files as necessary, so they show up in search engines.