The web has become a part of everyone's daily life. You can buy all kinds of products online, manage your banking account and view all kinds of entertainment and news sites. What makes the web work is web servers on network operation systems such as FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD.

One of the most popular and widespread web servers is Apache. This highly stable and extensible piece of software is freely available for download and boasts many powerful features. It comes in a very useful default form, but if you need more features, you can select from several additional modules which you can use to extend the feature set of apache.

Once you have your own web server running, you may want to see how much traffic you are getting. A quick stats builder which creates several useful graphs is Webalizer. This program is very easy to configure can be run quickly in case you have several sites to process. It may not offer all the features you would find with WebTrends, but you will find it has a nice blend of features which make it a great solution.

• Apache.org
• Webalizer Stats Processor
• Apache with SSL (FreeBSD Diary)
• Installing Apache (FreeBSD Diary)
• Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) Support (docs.greasydaemon.com)