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Re: Piwik 3.0.0

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Question to other Piwik users: how do you manage the ever-growing MySQL database to keep response times acceptable? Where do you host it? My Piwik instance is nearly unusable because any non-trivial request takes ages.

Also: What works best at scale? JS or Log file analytics?

Re: Piwik 3.0.0

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post #10

Question to other Piwik users: how do you manage the ever-growing MySQL database to keep response times acceptable? Where do you host it? My Piwik instance is nearly unusable because any non-trivial request takes ages.

Also: What works best at scale? JS or Log file analytics?

Setup cron archiving is a must: http://piwik.org/docs/setup-auto-archiving/

For scaling tracking, QueuedTracking plugin is the solution: http://piwik.org/docs/setup-auto-archiving/

For managing DB size, see: https://piwik.org/docs/managing-your-databases-size/

For any other issue, maybe report in Github tracker: https://github.com/piwik/piwik/issues

Re: Piwik 3.0.0

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post #10

Question to other Piwik users: how do you manage the ever-growing MySQL database to keep response times acceptable? Where do you host it? My Piwik instance is nearly unusable because any non-trivial request takes ages.

Have you enabled auto-archieving? Have a look here: http://piwik.org/docs/setup-auto-archiving/

If that isn't enough http://piwik.org/docs/optimize-how-to/ shows you how to configure php and mysql for more performance.

Actual hardware requirements are quite small for small sites (say < 10k visitors/day). Any 10-15$ VPS should be fine.

Re: Piwik 3.0.0

#18
Piwik is a great alternative to Google analytics, can't recommend them enough. On my websites I really like the option to track visits directly from the log file. It isn't as detailed as js tracking, but gives accurate number of visits (not altered by ghostery / privacy plugins).
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