[WEB4LIB] Re: FW: counting use of resources

[Thomas Dowling]

> And therein lies my real problem, perhaps.  It would be interesting to
survey
> Web4Lib and find out how many of us have complete control over our own
servers,
> how many of us rely on a central IT department which serves other
masters, and
> how many have outsourced servers with ISPs.  Anyone willing to take that
one on?
>

Not I.  But one of the various manifestos I'm always on the verge of
writing is "You're not doing real web mastering until..." where bullet
points would include: you have complete read-access to the raw web server
logs; you have permission to use your choice of CGI/PHP/SSI/ASP as long as
it's supported on your server; you know in advance, and are invited to
comment on, any changes to the server platform; and you can write a
.htaccess file (or its equivalent on non-Apache servers), subject to
reasonable security precautions.  If I didn't have all of those, I'd kick
and scream until I got it.

Thomas Dowling
OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
tdowling at ohiolink.edu