How can I know how many users is in my server ?

[Diogenes]

Hello Folks, It's been a while since my last post in this forum, and now I have a question. Is there a way to know how many users is attached to my server ?
My first idea was opening a SSH and type "uptime" this will return the server load and a number of users, but I´m afraid that number is not accurate.

Thanks in advance.

[Eriksrocks]

Users do not stay constantly connected to your server; they send a request, and the server sends a response in the form of an HTML page, images, CSS, etc. Because of this it's impossible to tell how many users are browsing your site at any given moment, if that's what you're wondering. :)

You can tell how many visitors visited your site, just not if they're are actually still looking at it at the current moment.

The best way to get an estimate of how many people have visited your site is to look at the raw access logs in your cPanel. Otherwise, if you wan't easier to read information complete with graphs, breakdowns, etc, enable one of the stats programs in cPanel and give it time to collect data:

Logs > Choose Log Programs. Give it time to collect the data, and then check it by either going to Webalizer or Awstats under the logs section (whichever one you chose). :)

[Diogenes]

Eriksrocks, thank you for your response. But let me clarify, I´m not wondering how many users is accessing my server in a given time, I mean how many BlueHost customers is attached to my Box. Understand ?

Thanks

[Early Out]

There's no way to find out how many BH accounts are hosted on a given server. You can find out how many domains are on there by going to http://www.myipneighbors.com/ and plugging in your domain name.

I don't know how accurate that is, however - it seems to show duplicate entries, and of course, you never know how many of those domains are actually "live." There could be a lot of parked or inactive domains.

A site that gives a completely different count: http://www.domaintools.com/reverse-ip/

I suspect this one is closer to the truth.

However, you have to pay to get detailed information.

For what it's worth, BH reps have stated that a typical server is hosting about 450 different accounts, and perhaps 900-1000 domains.

[wysiwyg]

There are 356 accounts on my server and I could tell you the username of every one. I wouldn't say it's impossible. It's more likely that you aren't supposed to be able to.

In the interest of security I won't post how to do this.

[Early Out]

That's the kind of poking around with SSH access that could get your account terminated. You might want to think twice about doing that again.

[wysiwyg]

I don't have ssh.

[Eriksrocks]

I don't have ssh.

I'm guessing it's with PHP?

[Early Out]

No matter how it's done, if I were wysiwyg, I'd be worried right now about whether my account was going to be terminated. BH has a pretty low tolerance for someone who's trying to hack his way into information he's not supposed to have access to.