MySpace Woes and a New Record

I just keep breaking records with my “popular” website. According to my sitemeter stats, the site received over 63,000 visitors yesterday. Unfortunately, my regular web server stats, such as AWStats and Webalizer, just aren’t working correctly. I’ve complained to my web host about it several times but they can’t seem to fix it. The log files are getting too big (too many visitors?). So I’ve had to rely on Sitemeter for my stats.

I am planning on hiring a friend/tech guy I know to help me with server stuff that my web host seems not to really care about. I’m hoping this guy can help me with the occasional MySQL errors, server issues and stats problems.

In other news, I am now boycotting Myspace. My chicklitbooks account got hacked and the idiot sent multiple comments to tons of people in my friends list. I took it kind of personally that people thought it was actually ME doing it. Honestly - if a site as big as Myspace.com cannot stop accounts from being broken into and private data being posted all over the internet, why should I bother with them? Come on, they are a multi-million (billion?) dollar company. I have always been disgusted with the constant errors and poor performance of the site, but now it’s gone too far. Thankfully I’ve never needed it to get additional traffic to any of my sites.