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I finally broke down and installed Shaun Inman’s Mint logging software. For the $30 fee, it is already money well spent. I use Dreamhost as my host and WordPress as my blog software. Setting up my system for using Mint was a snap.

On the Mint support blogs it’s suggested to simply use your WordPress database settings to get Mint running. This made me a bit nervous, so I setup a separate subdomain and database for Mint. All in all, with installing some standard Mint plugins and a neat WordPress plugin for Mint installation took me 45 minutes. Having done it once, doing it again on another site would probably take me 10 minutes.

Dreamhost provides stats software, so what does Mint get me? It ignores robots from search engines, my own visits (once cookied), and provides a readable, usable interface. So far, it’s well worth it. Maybe once I see the traffic unadulterated by extra hits from me and the ‘bots, my ego won’t agree with it!