Basil - More web stats for your blog
By Vivek | March 30th, 2007 at 10:57 am ET
Basil is yet another startup offering web stats. Only difference this time around is that you can host the tracking software on your server. Stats from your Basil install are delivered in real-time, which can get your prepared for a server crash when your site gets onto Slashdot or Digg and thousands of people hit your site within a hour(of course Basil also goes down if you have it installed on the same server). Stats provided by Basil are similar to what you will get from any other service- visitors, referrers, searches, environments, locations, content performance, browsers, and trends. All this comes for one-time fee of $25 .
My motivation point for moving to Basil or any other real-time web stats service for the fact can be if it sends me alerts in case of higher than normal users start hitting my blog. Last time StartupSquad got dugg, I didn’t realize it for 2-3 hours ’cause of delayed reporting from Google Analytics. Services like Pingdom can also help, but in that case you will know only after your site goes down or slows down appreciably in which case even you will have trouble reaching the server and instead go for a hard restart.
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on April 3rd, 2007 at 12:29 pm
We are offering a monthly license of Basil for $3 a month, your license will always be upgraded to the latest version.
Matt from Inlet Host.com
>>> http://www.inlethost.com/basil/
on April 24th, 2007 at 3:21 pm
Last month we reviewed two web analytical tools, one of which was Basil. You can read what we think at http://www.odinjobs.com/blogs/page/thatsinteresting?entry=who_s_calling_the_shots
on May 5th, 2007 at 4:26 pm
Interesting you should talk about the alerts. Your wishes are answered. With basil 1.2, we have added notifications which means you will be able to receive alerts when traffic hits a set limit.
on May 5th, 2007 at 10:57 pm
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