Log status while downloading the file

What happens to hits when I'm moving it to my box?

[Stefan]

One of the pages on our site is about the local weather. Today, a hurricane passed by and there was muchos traffic, (happens occasionally). The site is on Apache, hosted by a dependable outfit. My own connection is dial-up.

Today, because the logfile was so large, it was taking up to 5 minutes to download at times, (they zip it every day at 2:00 AM if it's over 1 MB, stick that file in the log folder, and start another one, but you have access to the on-going file the whole time). Is that log file getting added to while my painfully slow download of it is happening, or was I losing hits in the file as it crawled into my desktop?

[keyplyr]

You get the file as it was when you made the request.

[cgrantski]

and in the background the log continues to collect data.

[Stefan]

Hey, many thanks you guys. I've been wondering about that for a long time. I should have just tested it by hitting pages while the download was going on, really.