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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.

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Have you ever been in a situation that you need to install PHP5 to have one application which is spcifically written in PHP5 and you have also some legacy applications which are written in PHP4 and are not compatible with PHP5 but you want to have them both.

I used to hate all those software bundles installing Apache/MySQL/PHP for you easily. I prefered to have them separately installed by myself to have more control over it. But considering WAMP server with an amazing feature of having many versions of Apache/MySQL/PHP and just switch from one to another by right-clicking and selecting it, is awesome.

I’ll definitely consider it for my local machine. [First need to be done with my exam on Wednesday]

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