Finished the current months tasks for Uformia on Wednesday, I'm satisfied with what I got done.
Spent some time tweaking the DS server, set it so that access logs for the larger of the sites are mail to me, rather then processed with AWStats. This has reduced the load (and the length of it) experienced when webstat generation is done. If we need to access webstats for the larger sites, we can generate them on a different machine.
Note for other Plesk users - Logs are emailed uncompressed, as the body text of the email, not compressed or not as an attachment.
Spent some time tweaking the DS server, set it so that access logs for the larger of the sites are mail to me, rather then processed with AWStats. This has reduced the load (and the length of it) experienced when webstat generation is done. If we need to access webstats for the larger sites, we can generate them on a different machine.
Note for other Plesk users - Logs are emailed uncompressed, as the body text of the email, not compressed or not as an attachment.