Re: Can my server handle 500,000 page views per day ?

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From: Alan Corey
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 00:00

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On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Chiltown Worldwide wrote:

> We have recently switched ISPs for our hosting needs.  On April 1st, our
> online store (www.chiltown.com) will be live and based upon our advertising
> budget, we expect 100,000 page views per day for the first week.
> 
> I would like to know how others actually test load and if someone could help
> us either prove or disprove that our site (www.chiltown.com) can handle the
> load.  We are interested in testing only the performance / load on the first
> page.
> 
> We would also like to know how others test their sites for load as well as
> the best ISPs that can take some serious pounding.  Any information you can
> send to me is greatly appreciated.  Thank you in advance.
> 
> James McGovern
> Webmaster
> Chiltown Worldwide
> 
> 

There are some Perl scripts around for stress testing a server that will
fire off thousands of requests and record response times.  I saw source to
one in a magazine printed over a year ago but I don't remember the
magazine, sorry.  I didn't have much use for it personally.

If you poke around www.perl.com, specifically CPAN, you may find something.

  Alan Corey

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Date: 2000/03/21
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