Obtaining Access Logs for User Web Sites?

David Hilbert asks: "I have a very amateurish home page for sharing family photos and unusually useful links with my friends and family, here. For a long time my son hosted my website on his computer. He added a visitor log to it. Even though my web site is rarely accessed, I still had great joy in looking over my visitor log daily to determine who was accessing my website. My son's situation, changed, however, and he could no longer host my website. I still wanted a web site, however, so had my ISP host it as they do for any member. However, my web site visitor log was gone. My ISP was either unwilling or unable to give me a log file of accesses to my site. I found a temporary alternative, however. I subscribed to a commercial service at the ToolShack to capture and do a fancy analysis of my site's visits (with colorful pie charts, bar graphs, etc). Several months, later, however, Toolshack quit working for me. I sent email to the techies at Toolshack. 'It's a mystery to me' is all I got from them, so I canceled my account. I would like some help finding an alternate web site logging service. I have had no luck thus far. I could do it myself but my ISP doesn't allow any scripts on user's web sites. Any ideas on how I could get a visitor log?"

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Okay, I am going to troll

[inerte]

Yep, mod this down as a troll, flamebait, it's not my duty to care, hitting the karma cap is always nice so you can rant and wave your hand like you just don't care.

BUT.. c'mon. I am an avid newsgroup reader, specially at the limited range of "webmaster" stuff. Nice... Anyway, that's usually the question people do when they post for the second or third time. This, and including perhaps "What's a free web host?" and "Browser portability" would be what I call true newbie questions.

No offense to the original poster, who asked the question. We were all newbies someday (yes, even I couldn't understand this client-server crazy thing!). Anyway, that would be at the top of any webmastering and designing FAQ.

ANY faq.

What I would normally answer if this was in a newsgroup would be "STFW", or 'Search the Fucking Web". Or Google (like if it has a difference ;-)

So, what's this? Part of a Slashdot new commercial endeavor, to attract different target audiences? Why the heck is this posted in Slashdot?

Like I said, we were all newbies one time or another. But we were... we were... that's now why we came to places like Slashdot, where I can get the news that fit my taste.

Oh well, rant is over.