Excluding an IP in Awstats
I can verify that this works for both Bluehost and Hostgator. Excluding your own IP is a necessary step if you don´t want to distort your statistics. Moreover if you use wordpress I found that the different post and admin urls can seriously clutter the AWStats visited pages section which is one of the most important ones in my opinion.
To exclude your url in AWStats locate /tmp/awstats/ and edit the awstats.yoursite.com.conf . In the SkipHosts=”" parameter enter the hosts’ IPs you want to exclude. Finally, chmod 444 awstats.yoursite.com.conf . In Filezilla you can chmod files by right clicking them and going to the file permissions menu. If you´re in doubt you can also chmod your files from within the CPanel files menu.
If you have a dynamic IP you can also use regular expressions to exclude your IP in the SkipHosts=”" parameter. To do this you would have to exclude the first three octets of your IP like this SkipHosts=”REGEX[^123\.123\.123\.]”
This method works at Bluehost and Hostgator and should be very similar at other CPanel hosts that utilize AWstats.