How to stress test my website?

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Hey everyone!

For a client I’m making a new website. She typically attracts a lot of traffic on peak moments. It can be quite silent most of the times, but whenever she launches a new product its insane. Her old website crashes every time this peak happens.

So now the new website is almost done, I’d like to stress test it by sending heaps of traffic that way. Mind you, I also own the VPS the website is going to be hosted on, so I can see what happens and what I need to change hardware wise.

So is there any service out there that offers something like this? I’m fully aware that this might be a hard service to offer, because basically what I’m asking is a controlled DDOS attack on my own website/server.

Thanks in advance!

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9 Comments

  1. Can’t you go for overkill on your vps for a month and see the result after a product launch and then downgrade? You must have some data from her old website?

  3. Apache benchmark works fine. That “loader.io”-site is probably just a frontend making that more userfriendly

  4. Is this a static site or a blog? Why not download the wordpress site to html and css and upload it to cloudflare pages for example?

  5. Why not put the site on something like Linode? If you know when a peak load is going to happen, upgrade the server. When the peak ends, downgrade it. You pay monthly by use, so you’ll pay more during the peak, less during slow times.

  7. We put 50 servers of puppets against 50 http servers and see who wins. Ever had 10,000 in your checkout line at once? [loader.io](https://loader.io) is for posers. Also what if there’s 250,000 wanting to join the checkout line. Well we can scale to the moon and not handle that. I recommend a waiting room like Queue It.

  9. I put my site behind Cloudflare and enable HTML caching. Their APO, which costs $5/mo, can basically handle an infinite requests per second. You don’t even have to pay for APO, there are ways to cache HTML for free as well.

    +1 to loader.io for being a stress testing champ.

 

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