Title: Excellent plugin!
Last modified: September 3, 2016

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# Excellent plugin!

 *  [eupalinos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eupalinos/)
 * (@eupalinos)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excellent-plugin-1041/)
 * This is an excellent plugin, Camu.
 * If you could find a way to integrate it natively inside webservers the like of
   Apache2 or Nginx in Unix distributions (Ubuntu and so on,) I think you could 
   even make some money, at some point.
 * Since last year, DigitalOcean has been offering basic VPS “droplets” at a very
   convenient price, starting from $5 per month; they have a lot of tutorials covering
   about everything from the installation of a virtual Unix server to its maintenance,
   and there are flocks of people who have been switching over to them (and to similar
   companies.) Many previous Hostgator / GoDaddy customers are becoming little developers
   themselves, building and maintaining their own VPS server (mail server included.)
 * However, I found out there’s a lack of a decent free Web Stats software (free
   doesn’t mean one can’t make money from it, for instance offering specially tailored
   deals to companies all over the web.)
 * Awstats is an outdated statistics program, even if everybody is still using it.
   Piwik is a recent Web Stats software, but I think it’s far from being clear, 
   simple and complete as SlimStats is. For starters, you could take a look at how
   Piwik works, which is interesting. Like in Piwik, you could develop SlimStats
   with its own Mysql database inside a proper Unix environment. Then, as Piwik 
   does, you could write a lightweight plugin to be used with WordPress, which would
   only read from the main SlimStats Unix database.
 * You would then have two SlimStats versions: your WP SlimStats plugin as it is
   now, plus a separate SlimStats Unix version, and a tiny WordPress plugin integration
   of the latter. Starting from an almost mainstream distribution like Ubuntu would
   be great. Piwik has a folder inside the /var/www/ folder (where the WordPress
   installation resides,) but you could put your “SlimStat Unix” inside its own 
   folder in /etc/slimstats.
 * Take a look at the many DigitalOcean tutorials on how one deploys a LAMP (Linux-
   Apache-Mysql-Php) “droplet” with Ubuntu 14.04, and then start from there. The
   process is quite straightforward, and I’m sure you already have the skills to
   go through all that.
 * A few last words: Nginx (it’s a webserver like Apache / Apache2, but it’s slimmer
   than the latter and less resource-thirsty,) is rapidly gaining its share of the
   webserver market, at the expense of the heavier Apache. You may consider that
   as well, and test your software in both environments.
 * Much food for thought (too much, maybe.) But I’ll be glad if anything of the 
   above is going to stir your interest.
 * Again, thank you for a great plugin.
    This may be the right time for WP SlimStats
   to take another step forward.
 * Best.
 * M.

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