Thanks to a couple people of pointing out that the stats pages were broke.

Here's the scoop: Part of the problems were caused by a DNS entrying causing a 302 redirect, which occasionally caused the stats database to not get updated. vroom fixed that, or had someone fix it (I thought that the LWP::Simple module would handle a 302 by itself, but apparently not...).

The XP change charts were messed up because some idiot programmer did a SQL query with a grouping by MON-DAY, instead of YEAR-MON-DAY, which means that only the stats for the highest numbered month in the database were used. December, being 12, and January, being 1, means that you only saw Decembers changes. The actual data is there (except for the outages due to the server change and DNS problems). What you may notice is that you'll have a couple days with no XP changes, then a big jump, which is actually the sum of the missing days.

The stats machine was upgraded on 2000/01/15. Rather than being on a miserable AMD K6-III/450 with 128MB, it's now running on a 1Ghz Athlon, with 256MB. A slight performance gain should be noticable, and once I get the disk perfomance tuned correctly (2 27GB UDMA/100 Maxtor drives), it should pick up a little more.

--Chris

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