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First of all... Don't cross-post, there's no possible reason for you to do so.

Now that we've gotten that out of the way... Apache will handle that load
without any problems. I would look into the hardware that will be used on the
server. If you own the box, make sure you're using SCSI hard drives and have
ample RAM as to prevent your system from swapping.

The only test for a website is time, there's no magic potion, it's either fast
or it isn't. You may have the coolest ping times with a certain provider but
that doesn't ensure that your pages will get served out as quickly as you want
or need them to be. Stick with Tier 1 providers, millions of people can't go
wrong. :)

Hope this helps,

Andy

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

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Hi

its not so much if the server can handle the load it is weather or not the
links to the net can handle the load but that would work out at around 1
hit a second and yeah any half godd machine would be able to handle that
but it would depend on how you would set that up or if the hit are going
to come in lots at once like say lunchtime 

cya
	James

On Tue, 21 Mar 2000 11:22:52 GMT, Chiltown Worldwide <worldwide@chiltown.com> 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
>
>


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In article <gYIB4.19613$Nn6.766237@newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net>, Chiltown Worldwide (cw) writes:

cw> We have recently switched ISPs for our hosting needs.  On April 1st, our
cw> online store (www.chiltown.com) will be live and based upon our advertising
cw> budget, we expect 100,000 page views per day for the first week.

This isn't a very useful number. Consider, if it's spread out
throughout the day that is between 1 and 2 hits a second. A calculator
on a piece of wet string:-).

OTOH if it's something everyone does at lunch time you might be
talking 20-30 hits per second. Not so much of a problem if you're just
serving pages, but if you're doing anything exciting for a reasonable
proportion of thos ehits or if you have big things to send or...


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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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