The raw log files consist of:

• Web Log Files: These files are generated by the Web server to record all requests made to the Website. They are primarily used by your Website Statistics software to generate reports on essential marketing metrics for your website such as the number of visitors, pages viewed, visit duration, referring websites, search engines, key phrases and keywords used to find your site, visitor's computer configurations and so on.
   
• FTP Log Files: These files are generated by the FTP server to record all logins, uploads and downloads made to and from your hosting package.
   
• Mail Log Files: These files are generated by the Mail server to record all Email sent using code on your website.

The Log Files Manager in the Control Panel provides extremely flexible options to manage these raw log files. Not only can you configure logs  separately for Web, FTP and Mail Log files, but also choose to disable a particular type of logging in order to save disk space.

Log Rotation

If you choose to enable logging, the system allows you to specify log rotation options. Log rotation aims to delete older log entries automatically so that the log files do not continue growing in size indefinitely, thus saving you disk space. For your log files, you can

• specify the number of backlogs to maintain for each type of log file,
• set a maximum log file size, and
• set log rotation frequency (daily/weekly/monthly).