Hi Lowell,
OK - so I've been in touch with the other ISP, and now better understand the options on both ISPs. Both provide SSH access (I'm working on getting it activated on the one). My personal provider provides scheduled tasks, the other does not. Both have CGI access for things like PHP/PERL. Both have FTP access to the log files. Both automatically name, rotate, and GZIP the log files.
The one provider has the log files appear under domain.com/logs - access controllable by permissions and .htaccess. The other keeps the log files in ~/logs, where ~/www is where the domain web root is.
I do not have any Unix systems; and the boss does not want any. So Cygwin could be a good option to use wget --continuous. However I may be better off trying to convince the boss that having one Linux box that is only doing monitoring is not a risk to the company. It is seeming as if this option is becoming more and more interesting.
I am not concerned with the data being encrypted. It's just web site traffic data. No forms or anything like that exist on the site.
I've checked for rsync, wget, and curl on the hosting providers. My personal host has curl, but that is it. Neither have wget or rsync.
Cheers,
Greg
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