Sorry but the counter has major defects

[winterband]

Counter is not accurate and can just change randomly like one site was up to over 300000 and then just showed something like 157000. I am seeing random failures regularly.

Another site had 87 hits last night and then showed 25 today.

This thing is seriously defective. Sorry....

And I really don't know what else to use. It is the only hitcounter that simplescripts provides.

Also your instructions are not accurate. it says to post code to a dir /counter but the install puts the php file in the root of the website.

[Klemen]

This website provides support for scripts from PHP Junkyard, not scripts from "Simplescripts".

[winterband]

Simplescripts offers this product to ipage.com customers in the control panel and installs it. That is where I got the program that you wrote and I am whining about.

[Klemen]

It's likely your text files are getting corrupted. This happens often with websites hosted on very busy servers (for example too many websites on a server, happens especially with low-cost providers).

Your best bet would be to try a MySQL-based script instead, not a text-based one.

[winterband]

Please provide me a clue or a link to a counter that you would recommend.

Regards,

Steve

[Klemen]

I don't use any so I can't recommend any, but you should be able to find them here.

[winterband]

I looked at about everything there and the only real practical thing I found was one that would require me to set up a counter site myself and then link to it. It looks like there might be an opportunity here for you to fill a vacuum and write a reliable counter.