Test your Web server: Lay Siege to it!
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[Editor's note: I use siege on my own servers before deploying them. It is an excellent piece of software!] One of the great fears for many Web developers, and even more so for Web server admins, is watching their sites brought down by an avalanche of traffic. The traffic may be from a DoS attack, or maybe the site just got slash-dotted. Bottom line: It just isn’t available. Do you know at what point your own site will collapse? That’s what load/stress testing is all about, and there are a number of great tools to help you do it. A proprietary tool called WAPT was previously reviewed here at Builder.com. But I’m an open source kinda guy and always prefer to use tools that are freely available. One of the most prevalent and well-maintained open source tools for stress testing is aptly called Siege.
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