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@NogDogNov 20.2006 — #It would be difficult to test from your home, for example, as you'd be limited by the speed at which requests could be sent up your internet connection and then the response data could be sent back, and that rate probably is significantly less than the amount of requests/responses that the server could theoretically receive/send across its connection to the internet (likely a T1 connection at a minimum).
The "pros" would probably test it with a computer on the same site as the server(s), connected to the same router(s), and with software to send HTTP requests and receive the responses and allowing them to vary the request rates to find out what it can handle.
Frankly, since your ISP does not limit your bandwidth, I would just tell TV people that you have no personal bandwidth limit; the only restriction will be the physical response limits of the shared server you're on. I would think that would be sufficient to go ahead with things. If at some point you start noticing severe lags, then hopefully that means you've gotten so much traffic that you can now afford to move to another server, since with all you're advertising revenue you'll be collecting you'll then be able to afford a dedicated server. ?@NogDogNov 20.2006 — #If you aren't bogging your pages down with large, high-resolution graphics nor with bulky Flash files or other multimedia, then I doubt you're going to have any problems.
I'm not up to date myself on any particular performance tools to suggest, but maybe someone else has a suggestion?
Stress-Testing and Stage Fright
Hello! I’m a newbie, an HTML tinkerer with a peculiar problem. I’d appreciate any advice folks can give me!
I use Verizon DSL service, which comes with free web space. I’m also a fan of a certain television series, so I decided to use that space to create a fansite. I started to wonder if I’d be getting a cease-and-desist order from the company that creates the series.
So, I wrote them an email with the site link, asking them if what I was doing was all right.
Well, they wrote back saying that the loved the site, and would like to link to it from their company’s site. And they want to know how much traffic my site can handle.
I contacted Verizon, and talked to a human, and as far as we could ascertain, there is no bandwidth limitation for these ‘toy’ sites. “You’re parked on the same rack of servers as a bunch of other customers…I don’t see why they couldn’t handle the load.”
My question is: is there a way to test this myself? I know that there are ways of stress testing/load testing your web site, but–I think you have to run those on the server itself–right?
Is there a way for me to test my site from a remote location? I’d like to be able to write this guy back and tell him it handled X users per minute without choking up.
Thanks in advance for your time and trouble! Any advice would be much appreciated!
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@NogDogNov 20.2006 — #It would be difficult to test from your home, for example, as you'd be limited by the speed at which requests could be sent up your internet connection and then the response data could be sent back, and that rate probably is significantly less than the amount of requests/responses that the server could theoretically receive/send across its connection to the internet (likely a T1 connection at a minimum).The "pros" would probably test it with a computer on the same site as the server(s), connected to the same router(s), and with software to send HTTP requests and receive the responses and allowing them to vary the request rates to find out what it can handle.
Frankly, since your ISP does not limit your bandwidth, I would just tell TV people that you have no personal bandwidth limit; the only restriction will be the physical response limits of the shared server you're on. I would think that would be sufficient to go ahead with things. If at some point you start noticing severe lags, then hopefully that means you've gotten so much traffic that you can now afford to move to another server, since with all you're advertising revenue you'll be collecting you'll then be able to afford a dedicated server. ?
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@NogDogNov 20.2006 — #I'm not up to date myself on any particular performance tools to suggest, but maybe someone else has a suggestion?