[Editor's note: Part of a continuing series about best practices for log file management] There are a variety of forms of security when talking about computers, the Internet, and smart phones. With respect to log files, the security discussed here has less to do with access to the log files, and is more concerned with [...]

[Editor's note: This post is part 6 of a series of posts discussing Log File Management. For more on this topic, be sure to read Tyler's other posts.] The previous blog entry entitled ‘Remote Hosted Sites and ISP Policies‘ within this series [Best Practices for Log File Management] discussed the challenges with respect to ISP [...]

[Editor's note: This post is part 5 of a series of posts discussing Log File Management. For more on this topic, be sure to read Tyler's other posts.] For small, medium, and even large organizations, it is still relatively common to outsource the hosting of one or more Web sites. While this provides many advantages [...]

[Editor's note: This post is part 4 of a series of posts discussing Log File Management. For more on this topic, be sure to read Tyler's other posts.] It’s not uncommon for a large Web site to have log files in the range of a few hundred megabytes per day. Compressed with a good archiving [...]

[Editor's note: This post is part 3 of a series of posts discussing Log File Management. For more on this topic, be sure to read Tyler's other posts.] What is different between this blog entry and the previous (called “Log File Formatting, Naming, and Compression – Single-server Environment”) is simply the number of servers in [...]

[Editor's note: This post is part 2 of a series of posts discussing Log File Management. For more on this topic, be sure to read Tyler's other posts.] Log file formatting, naming conventions and compression are all aspects of proper data management. Of the three of these sub-topics within this blog entry, clearly, the log [...]

[Editor's note: This post is part of a series of posts discussing Log File Management. For more on this topic, be sure to read Tyler's other posts.] Log files are intellectual property! It’s a pretty strong statement, but it is intended to emphasize that there is tremendous value and information within them. Therefore, they should [...]

[Editor's note: This post introduces a series of posts discussing Log File Management. For more on this topic, be sure to read Tyler's other posts.] In the world of technology today, changes take place so quickly that it is important to keep a record of every transaction that takes place; that is, to keep a [...]