Know a good network traffic monitor?

[mikazo]

I'm running Debian 4.0 as a web/FTP server from my home. I'm trying to find a good network traffic monitor. Is there anything that will monitor page hits/visits? Visual representations would be cool, possibly something that sends or emails results to a client or email account. I'd like to be able to monitor my server from my laptop running Windows Vista. Thanks for any suggestions.

[oz]

Maybe AWStats will do what you want:

AWStats - Free log file analyzer for advanced statistics (GNU GPL).

[machiner]

webalizer
axs
awstats

there are many, many apache log parsers. Try Sawmill, but it's $$$$$. I use axs on all my sites. Tells me exactly what I need to create perfect marketing schemes.

You can monitor your server from your laptop all day -- I do. I use traffic monitors like apachetop, server-status, iptraf, jnettop....
The last 2 I ssh into my server to run.

Your apache server is a web server -- if you open a port in your firewall, map it to whatever port you like if you need to, then you can access your server from any machine. If you only run a LAN -- then access your server stats through a log parser as have been mentioned by browsing to your server:

htp://your.server.domain/webalizer

If you have a dynamic IP then get a service, I use this one: No-IP - Dynamic DNS, Static DNS for Your Dynamic IP

Your router will probably work with it or you can use their own program to map your constantly changing dynamic IP to the domain name you get when you sign up. I think dyndns is the biggest service and works with almost all routers.