Those of you who remember the old blog will probably also remember that it had Google ads on it - the reason behind this was to help cover the cost of bandwidth.

Given that there are no ads on the new site I’ve been finding other ways to reduce bandwidth costs by killing some image indexing, removing mp3’s and using Amazon’s excellent S3. I’ve started hosting some images and other static assets on S3 and it seems to have been working out pretty.

There is a difficulty though in the format and delivery of the log files from S3. Instead of spending time I don’t have available to faff around with getting those log files into some analysis software I decided to have a look at S3Stat which is a service that does the fiddly stuff, runs your data through Webalizer, and uploads the reports back to your S3 account. Pretty handy!

S3Stat has been working pretty well for me so - in true “cash for comment” style - with the aim of getting the S3Stat service for free I’m suggesting to anyone that uses S3 and wants to see traffic data on things like image files that they should check out S3Stat.