The old HoT Tracker is indeed kind of outdated. The good thing is that it didn't need MySQL if you only wanted to show online mates and server status.
Currently I'm developing a new release of the HoT Tracker which is much bigger (and needs MySQL), but should be easier to install and to use.
The real benefit of it is that someone can install it and others can use the functionality (e.g. server status) remotely! Currently I'm running kind of a beta test, i.e. I have the new tracker running on my private webspace and my clan is using the remote server status (simply including a script).
This is what the server status now looks like:
http://www.g-g-c.de/index.php?uid=server&show=lfs
The new tracker allows to configure the look of the server status (i.e. which fields to display, which texts to show) individually. The same holds for colors.
The new tracker should have been released already but as you might know, real life is more important and recently I had not much time to finish the remaining 5% of the tracker. Very few things need to be done (including documentation), so I hope I will be able to release it during march. But don't nail me down in that.