A question for webmasters, what tools do you use...
Im going to code up a gpl project for webmasters. It is temp titled PHP Janitor. The goals are to put together a set of tools for webmasters to use to keep the functions of their sites in proper order.
Heres what Im looking at right now...
a scriptable method of gathering vital site statistics like page hits. The goal isnt to use it like webalizer but to use it to actually manage the site
The same goes with server stats. I figure an interface to a few crons that would check vital server stats and perhaps AT commands that could be run to back up the server would be useful
email notification on event horizons. some notifications would be
on errors
on backup completion or failure
on achieving a certain goal from the site stats
on a custom event
a comprehensive log that counts from...
none - no logs
minimum - counting minor events like logins or login failures
medium - major actions are logged such as write queries, or delete queries on the database
verbose - all actions logged
a database health section to monitor vital dbase statistics such as memory usage
a section for search engine or data miners.
first a complete database search function
a complete static page search function
function to track search engines on the site
dynamic .htaccess editing with a wizard to create new htaccess rules
hardware
prices 
