One of my client's sites stopped tracking statistics with Google Analytics and I decided to look for alternatives. During my research I found that many people don't like hosting their visitors stats on external servers or waiting 24 hours to see them updated.

My first try has been Piwik, it runs on PHP 5, it's easy to install and uses Ajax for its widgets.

Piwik is open source and even if it's on a very early stage of development I suggest you to take a look.

Update: Offer no longer available. No more accouns accepted in Alpha.

Alpha, the first server in the new era of web hosting services at Ventanazul, is ready. And even if I haven't finished with the official details I can already announce our first offer.

We have reseller plans only for web developers, exactly what you need for your projects and your clients' sites.

This is the offer: The first 25 clients can get their reseller plans (details below) for just US$ 20 for the first two months, that's just US$ 10 per month, the regular price will be US$ 35 per month after that.

This unique reseller plan includes:

• 10 Gb. of disk space.
• 100 Gb. of monthly bandwidth.
• Unlimited domains, subdomains, mailing lists, email accounts and databases.
• cPanel and WHM 11.
• MySQL 5.
• PHP 5.2.
• PostgreSQL 7.4.

The service is only for web developers, that way we'll be able to focus just on their needs, we won't deal with final users.

Alpha is an AMD Dual Opteron 252 with 4Gb. RAM and SCSI drives, it's colocated at LinkLINE Datacenter in Los Angeles, California, and has redundant connections to many reliable ISP's in the US.

All our clients will receive tech support via Ventanazul Helpdesk.

To get your reseller web hosting plan just contact me. You can pay with credit card, Paypal or Western Union.

I'll publish more details soon and I'm already working to be able to host Ruby on Rails and Django applications.

Remember, US$ 20 for two months, just for the 25 first clients.