Who can code me a counter??
 

I need a counter like hitbox, that I can have the breakdowns of every pages traffic no matter what domain it is own. This counter will need to be on over 5 million different pages, I can install a mod layout on every domain with the counter in it, putting a counter on all these pages would take forever. I don't have a server for the counter yet, but can get whatever type of server is needed for it. If anyone knows if there is something like this for sale now, or can code this for me, please leave your contact info here. Thanks

I heard Icefire was good with them.

:winkwink:

(thats a joke)

LOL, I don't think php will work for what I need. I have been told using freebsd with a C script is the only way to go.

It's the truth too however :Graucho

Contact me, 5596373

Nobody else? Where are all the good coders at today?

Oh well, your loss :)

i would start at www.rentacoder.com or scriptlance.com or itmoonlighter.com

more then likely you will find someone cheap that has already coded it and will resell it to you.

5 million pages? tell me you are starting amazon2.com :-)

I know shit about coding. We use analog (which I think is free) on a freebsd server, and it diddles around with the server logs and spits out stuff you can read. You don't have to put anything on the pages.
Don't know if that's what you're looking for or not.

SS

I know you will not appreciate my words here nor will hire my services (who cares about that? I would code it for free just to have some fun after that).
The best way would be coding a module for your Apaches. If you want it to connect to a database in order to have all the stuff centralized, then use a database too (Oracle, DB2 or Sybase will do an excelent work in this case). The benefits of the Apache module will be:
1) You can track all the stuff, including internal prod if it's coded to track prod too without even having to show an image (less bw, just in case you care about that).
2) It's way much faster than any kind of script / CGI or any other kind of stuff.
3) It will be more stable as it will not crash or consume much memory (supposing it's good coded).

The cons:
1) You will need to install the module on the apache (well, your admin will do that pretty fast asuming you have a skilled admin. Your coder could do that too).
2) Not many coders can code a good apache module, so have good luck finding a coder for that. I am shure you will do, but it will take you some more time than finding a standard CGI coder.


Of course if you want to use CGI stuff, there are lots of guys ready to code you a nice CGI that will do the work. Perhaps not as efficient as a module and perhaps less stable. All that depends on what servers will you use it.


Do not take this reply seriously... I know I have no reputation to talk about anything... or perhaps I have... :)

only a fool wouldnt listen to intelligent input, regardless of past experiences with the person giving it.

Actually, not quite. The best way is a customized web server built specifically for handling it. Which is what we have. However, not many people have the money for it.

Choker, hit me up. I might have something for you.

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True but I do not do business with people that I do not trust.

thanks man

Sent you a message thanks

.Yeah man I have like almost 2 million static pages now. I never delete anything. LOL.
I have a good idea of what I want, which is what gogobar said a customized web server. I want the counter to be on it's own server and pull the stats from all the other servers. Problem is I keep the referer logs off on all my servers except when I need them. Turning them on puts a big load on the servers.

What's your budget? $100? $500? $1000? $10,000? $25,000?

Hmmm... I was also interested in a counter program for escort related websites. Any ideas what it would cost?

Try out Source Coding http://www.sourcecoding.com

The group of programmers work in any platform/languages and they can either build you something form scratch at good price or work with programs in their inventory... either way pricing is very reasonable.

Hope this helps.

GaryAlan

Negotiable. It depends on how good and efficient the script is.

thanks just requested a quote from them.

Surely some coder made a script like this and retained the rights to the code. Probably sitting on a cd somewhere collecting dust. Could be some good fast cash for someone

I'll be more than happy to send you the CD, but I want the cash first :Graucho

How about you icq me and I can help you out :)

This is exactly what another coder made and installed for me but never finished. So many coders get strung out on dope. Why is that?

i have the same problem, they all start, but they never finish, whats with that??

Well, some coders just code for the fun of coding. When the project is almost finished the fun is gone, so they start another project. The other reason could be that making an Apache module is not that easy that making a CGI (I mean a good and stable working module).
In any case, as it will be C stuff, I recommend you to run it on a Linux or BSD box with kernel that has a PageExecutable patch. This will stop any kind of overlow attacks, so if anyone goes to h4x0r that server he would need some really good skills (and lots of time, so if your admin is good he would be able to control the situation). Also it will make the server more stable in case the module is badly coded and has some kind of memory leaks (you will be amazed how many coders around do not know how to prevent memory leaks or overflow attacks in their code). In case of a memory leak, at some time the module would crash and the entire server with it. If the system has Page Executable protection builtin into the kernel then only the server thread related to this memory segment crashes and gives a kernel level warning due to bad memory segment, but the server itself continues working.

About the server logs, there are modules that log into databases (log_mysql, log_pgsql, log_sybase, log_oracle). all these modules log all the stuff into a database. This makes the data very easy to be analyzed and also to have all the logs centralized in only one place. I do not know exactly what do you need, but perhaps you can do it with one of these modules.

PHP is excellent to make a counter in

Everyone needs to figure out that CGI sucks. Really really bad. I don't care what language the program is written in (a CGI script written in C will run about 50x slower than a PHP script). This is because CGI scripts (in simple terms) have to be restarted for each request.

Computers are getting so fast that the overhead of interpreted languages matters less and less every day. What does and will always matter is alogrithmic efficiency - the scalability of the software.

This could easily be done in PHP, mod_perl, Java etc. The coding is actually the easy part - any Joe Programmer with a book could do it. The real magic is tuning the webserver and your database to handle the load.

If I wasn't swamped right now I'd offer to help you out Choker.

skazzel, it's obvious that you don't know a thing about programming.
php being 50x times faster than C
LOL
yeah, that's why all the big sites use C/C++ scripts right,
because they like to be slow, weeding out all the surfers looking for a quick fix :1orglaugh

Care for a programming contest perhaps?

WOW they are cheap

http://www.scriptlance.com/cgi-bin/f...?id=1056243454

Andre

Bling Bling

You really think a C/C++ <b>CGI script</b> is faster than a php script being run by the mod_php apache module? Seriously? Do people pay you to program for them? Amazing stuff.

A C CGI script will be much faster than a CGI script written in PHP / Perl, however a PHP script running through mod_php or a Perl script running through mod_perl will run circles around the C CGI script.

As for all the big sites using C/C++ - you mean like Yahoo (which is moving over from a custom scripting language to PHP)?

i'm working at similar project

www.freedomcounter.com

icq 4048969
http://dharik.com/job/

You got it all wrong. The first step is to not use apache at all. There goes the idea with modules and cgi/or compiled into apache

Since he wants to run it on it's own webserver anyway it would be truly stupid to even bother with apache. Considering he wants to serve several 100's of hits per second off of a single, average box

There are much much much much much faster web servers with logging out there

:Graucho

i have had the same damn problems with programmers

Hello;
We can create a professional counter.
It will be consisting of an Apache module + a C program for retrieving real time stats. The old stats and all the settings (like categories, different banners (different images and sizes), etc.) will be stored in a MySQL database. Actually you don't have to worry about what it is consisting of because you will only need to edit the HTML templates to customize the layout for the users of the counter, and we will take care of the rest.

You will need a dedicated server for this the counter (in order to run the customised Apache).

In a few days (about 2 days) we will have a simplified version of the counter at work (we are going to use it in another project of ours), so you can make sure it works.

Please contact me on ICQ # 83300875 (nickname: Yerdnat) or by e-mail: wyvern(at)rbtechgroup(dot)com to discuss any details.