My hosting provider provides built-in support for two different web log analysis packages: Analog and Webalizer. I’ve tried both of them, but neither gave me very good control over the data, so I decided to switch to AWStats which seems to be fairly popular. At first the installation steps were kind of painful, seeming to focus on an installation where I had full control over Apache (which I don’t). I finally found a short write-up from another Pair user that didn’t need the AWStats install script. Some background: My site has recently become bombarded with thousands of requests originating from…