How do you test a website/server set-up to check it can manage say 50,000 users a day?
Apache bench is bundled with Apache, for benchmarking Apache given a set of parameters. You can use it for load testing.
There are plenty of others too, Grinder was one the Java team used at my last company.
Apache one sounds cool, thanks.
You can also use tools from rational, mercury, segue, compuware, etc. Costy but the results (if the tests are done by professionals) can save your company.
I use jmeter. It's quite impressive. I use the html sampler to grab simple values from my apache - php workstation to generate urls / xml data to throw at our big server farm.
It's quite impressive.
I can see you are impressively impressed 😉
