New from Codewalkers.com today is a tutorial about creating your own page of server statistics in a shared hosting environment.

If you have ever had shared hosting, which I am sure that most of you have, then you will probably know how these hosts pack your account with loads of server statistics tools. This is all well and good but have you ever wanted to make one for yourself? If you do then this tutorial is probably for you.

He continues on, showing how to grab the uptime data from the local server at two different points, giving you the time the machine your site has been on has been up. Following that, he gives a larger script that records not only the uptime of the machine, but also the server name, IP, port, software, gateway, and a few others.