Comments on: Hot Peppers for Mint

By: Pete Freitag

Pete Freitag — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 19:13:09 +0000

FYI FreshView was released, you might want to update that link.

As far as mint being worth it, I wasn't sure and gambled with the $30 to check it out.

It is running on my blog: http://www.petefreitag.com/ which does get a bit of traffic (I've been on del.icio.us/popular/ and digg.com a lot recently) though not near 13gb of logs. I did have MySQL crash while I was under heavy load, but I don't know if that was from Mint, or other stuff.

My blog is written in ColdFusion, and I simply include the javascript, so no you don't need to be on a LAMP site, just need a LAMP server to process the stats.

At first I didn't think it was worth it, but now with pepper I think it is really cool.

By: Relapse

Relapse — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 13:39:40 +0000

Checked the FAQ etc. Notice that all pages say a lot of “track” but not a lot of “track what.” Hence why I was going for a trusted evaluator rather than forumising on a possibly way off-topic question. I admit it, I’d rather a nice table of features than hunting through question/ answers and page-burrowing. Lazy? Maybe :)

The poly gigabyte log files question still stands even if it doesn’t look at the log files themselves; that’s a heck of a lot of Javascripted PHP/Mysql calls it has to handle concurrently.

By: Kevin Hale

Kevin Hale — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 11:09:36 +0000

Umm ... I would recommend checking out the FAQ and the requirements page. Have you asked any of these questions in the forum or to Shaun? That would be a good place to start.

I don't see why Mint couldn't run on say a windows server as long as it was running php and mysql. Mint doesn't parse through a server's log files. It collects it's information through a JavaScript file included on a web page (and so would not be able to tell you stats about images, css etc on your site.)

By: Relapse

Relapse — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 07:13:53 +0000

Hmmm, I'm unsure with all the hype surrounding Mint. Especially given the lack of any real content on the Mint site except for the "Pay $30 to find out what I do" links.

Sure the demo movie looks nice with its floating/ collapsing column format etc. But where are the stats - not logging stats but Mint's stats? Can it be used on sites with poly Gigabyte log files (in the order of 13 Gigs per day)? Is it really only useful for blogs to find referrer stats etc? Is it only for LAMP sites?

Really wish they felt like providing more guts about the thing. Any pointers on illumination?

By: Derek ORgan

Derek ORgan — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 00:24:00 +0000

Looks really nice.

Anyone know if it compares to bbclone (http://bbclone.de). I've been using that for a while now and altough it doesn't look as pretty you can view detailed stats which is handy for small sites.

Seems to work very similar to Mint.