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ManiacJoe

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4. The web servers CAN log that info and lots of other stuff.

Sat Jan 21, 2012, 10:39 PM

Jan 2012

It is a matter of what the admins chose to turn on in the configurations of the server.

The other catch is that if you do not own the web server, there is a good chance that you are sharing the web server with other "sites" hosted on the same hardware. In that case your data is probably co-mingled with the other sites in the log files. If that is the case, the hosting service will not give you access to those log files since the data is not all yours. Thus, google and the other third parties may be your best bet.

The important question here is what do you want to do with the IP addresses? What other data do you want with them, like timestamps, etc?

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