Usage stats of my virtual hosted domains

Monthly bandwidth and disk usage figures needed.

[niceLAguy]

On the first day of every month I want the following numbers for every virtual domain I host (including my own) for the prior month.

1. I want to know the average disk usage (in MB) of every virtual domain I host (including mine).
2. I want to know the total bandwidth consumption of every virtual domain I host (including mine).
3. I want to get the numbers and write them into a file that PHP can read so I can bill customers by actual disk usage and bandwidth consumption, so I can get myself out of the "plan wars."

These numbers are available manually via CPanel/WebHostManager when you either list accounts (disk usage) or view bandwidth, but not through the API. My hosting provider also has Analog and Webalizer installed, but I have no idea if one can induce either of them to get this information.

An extra-nice plus would be an additional breakdown by subdomains, if any of the virtual domains are using any.

[Brett_Tabke]

Welcome to the board.

It all depends upon what is being thrown into your log files. Most will include the domain name, and thus a log file analyzer can strip them out by domains.

[niceLAguy]

Thanks for the welcome. This site sure seems to have real information. I have found out a few things today:

You can call WebHostManager's functions from a URL or a script. For example, to call up the list of accounts (which shows the disk quote and current usage): [userid:[e-mail]:2086...]
--- or to retrieve the bandwidth figures: [userid:[e-mail]:2086...] (m=number of month 1-12; yyyy=2002,2003, etc.)

NOW ... the big difficulty is parsing the HTML to extract the numbers. So far, I've not found any way that looks "easy" at all ... and I could really use some suggestions.

[Brett_Tabke]

Sounds like such a custom setup, that you'd have to go at the host to figure out just what they are running. There has to be a way to pull out the raw log files.

[niceLAguy]

Ah indeed, as I found out today. I have access to my domain account's logs, so I guess I'm off into virtual host land to figure out how Analog works. I printed the entire manual and will start with that. Any suggestions or short-cuts are welcome.

[niceLAguy]

Well ... what a configuration nightmare! I'm so confused and overwhelmed I'm not sure where to start. Does anyone have an analog.cfg for virtual hosted domains that actually works so I can see how the configuration is set-up? I would really appreciate your sharing it with me. I suggest you edit your dmain-secific information to generics like 'mydomain.com' or something.

[niceLAguy]

The ISP is now providing the raw logs for all of the domains I need. It's starting to appear that the easy solution is to download them to my machine, process them, and post the results back on my site for inclusion by the billing package.