Tracking high traffic clicks and/or page views
Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 1:13 am
Hello!
I am an internet entrepreneur. Due to bad experiences with hiring programmers, I have taken the liberty to teach myself enough PHP to get what I need done, however I need some assistance or advice if possible..
I have a network of websites where some of them individually will have 100,000-400,000 visitors per day. A VERY important part of the websites will be sorting the most popular clicked media. I would like to know the absolute best & simplest way to accomplish this.
I believe updating the mysql DB on every click for every page is very overkill, and I do not want to use the server logs and parse the data. The only idea I had was to store the data in flat files, and cron it every hour to update the DB in one shot.
Ideas?
I appreciate it!
I am an internet entrepreneur. Due to bad experiences with hiring programmers, I have taken the liberty to teach myself enough PHP to get what I need done, however I need some assistance or advice if possible..
I have a network of websites where some of them individually will have 100,000-400,000 visitors per day. A VERY important part of the websites will be sorting the most popular clicked media. I would like to know the absolute best & simplest way to accomplish this.
I believe updating the mysql DB on every click for every page is very overkill, and I do not want to use the server logs and parse the data. The only idea I had was to store the data in flat files, and cron it every hour to update the DB in one shot.
Ideas?
I appreciate it!