Stress ! The good one … webserver stress benchmark
It’s been for several years that I have not been in need of using a stress tool for testing my applications, for load-balancing and at those ages I used to use “Microsoft [ough] Web Application Stress Tool [link]“. At those ages I didn’t have any other FREE tool to stress the webserver and get the benchmarks [at least I wasn't aware of].
On the other hand we’re facing a very high traffic application which needs to be optimized byte by byte so we got a optimization guru on board and today he introduced me this fantastic Apache tool for benchmarking the load and traffic and I wanted to share it with you.
It’s “ab” [ Apache HTTP server benchmarking tool] and you can find it here. It’s a command prompt utility which works just perfect. And you can see the result of every single line that you change and how does it affect the performance.