> > Hey PHPers, >> >> We've been doing sampled logging to the database in our application for >> awhile, and now I'm hoping eventually to blow that out to a larger scale. >> I'm worried about the performance implications of logging to our database >> on >> ... >> >> > If you are using mysql and MyISAM tables, you can try using "insert DELAYED > " method. > > http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/insert-delayed.html > > This will bulk all your inserts for writes. >
Thanks for the suggestions! Those both look great for what I was going to do. One other thought I had after reading those suggestions, if we're doing web server logging, we can also parse the logs using webalizer or awstats. I know apache provides file size and the URL that's being hit, but what if I want to do custom referral tracking? We append ref=foo to our links to track where people are coming from, should I look at building my own solution for that, or do existing tools like awstats suffice for that as well?
