This morning I found this piece of email in my inbox. Alec Saunders .LOG is sooo popular that I’ve broken one of the stats packages provided by my hoster. See below.
Thank you to all of you who think that what I write is valuable or entertaining enough to keep coming back. And thank you especially to Bluehost for providing such a great service at such a low price.
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From: support@bluehost.com
Sent: August-28-06 6:30 AM
To: alecs@exmsft.com
Subject: Analog stats analyzer disabled for saunderslog.com.
This is a automated message from bluehost.com to let you know that your site saunderslog.com has outgrown the Analog stats analyzer that you have enabled.
Due to the way that Analog processes stats it uses a excessive amount of memory if you have a lot of traffic, so much in fact that it can actually crash your server. Because of this we have been forced to disable Analog on your site.  You are welcome to use the other log analyzers we offer, Awstats and Webalizer, as they do not suffer from the same limitation.
If you have any questions or concerns about this please respond to this email and it will be directed to our support department.
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Thank you,
Bluehost.com Support ServicesÂ
Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry make Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
