# Best Practice question about log handling/storage

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/best-practice-question-about-log-handling-storage/212737>\
**Category:** NGINX\
**Created:** [October 12, 2011, 10:45am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/best-practice-question-about-log-handling-storage/212737 "2011-10-12T10:45:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![luislavena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/0ea827/32.png) [@luislavena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/luislavena)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2011, 10:45am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/best-practice-question-about-log-handling-storage/212737/1 "2011-10-12T10:45:13Z")

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Hi

How should we share nginx web access logs for later analyzing for eg.  
awstats.  
Do you setup nfs server for nginx server or should we put out separate  
nfs  
server where nginx should save logs. How do you do it?

We dont want lockups/singlepoint of failures, like when you have nfs  
server where nginx saves logs and that nfs server goes down so goes  
nginx  
because nfs connection is broken and it cant write/read from nfs server.  
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**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2011, 11:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/best-practice-question-about-log-handling-storage/212737/2 "2011-10-12T11:26:00Z")

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