Log files offer a wealth of information about system and user functions. They also provide a safe way to get started analyzing large data sets. Dave Rosenberg has more than 15 years of technology and ...

Want to know why your high-value pages aren’t getting indexed? Or why Google keeps crawling useless parameters over and over and over…but not your blog? Your server logs hold the answers. Yes, they’re ...

In Windows 11/10/8/7, the System File Checker is integrated with Windows Resource Protection, which protects registry keys and folders as well as critical system files. If any changes are detected to ...

As every server administrator knows, log files are the pulse of a network infrastructure. They tell us what has occurred in an application or service, and if they stop growing, something is wrong. Log ...

Log rotation on Linux systems is more complicated than you might expect. Which log files are rotated, when and how often, whether or not the rotated log files are compressed, and how many instances of ...

How do you know if you've been successful with search engines? You can check your "rank" at search engines for particular keywords, analyze log files to see the actual terms people used to reach your ...