how much traffic can a web site handle check?

[FreewareTownCOM]

how can u check how much traffic can a web site handle?

 

[DaiShan]

View past performance? Is this your web site or someone else's? Have you set the web site up yet?

 

[nweaver]

You can get a performance/load & Stress test. My company does this (not my dept, but I sometimes do some scripting when I have time). I think cost depends on how many pages and how complex they are (more complex the test path, more money. Forms, asp, scripting all adds some complexity).

 

[Devistater]

Get it on slashdot's front page and see how fast it croaks. If it lasts more than 10 mins its good


Seriously though, if the hosting company is running something good like apache, and the pages dont load CPU intensive tasks for the server, it often comes down to bandwidth availible.

 

[randal]

microsoft has a web application stress test tool, used to be called homer. google for it

 

[nweaver]

if it's an enterprise page, and you need to know (i.e. costs $$ when it's down) then hire out. it's hard for a single person to simulate 5000 concurrent users from different parts of the world.

 

[dawks]

Unless you're hosting the server yourself on your own network, in your own datacenter, make sure you contact the sysadmins that actually maintain your server. Random stress testing from remote locations may look like a DDoS, or some other network attack and can get messy.

 

[FreewareTownCOM]

well when i check i dont want to crash the site either

 

[Devistater]

Originally posted by: FreewareTownCOM
well when i check i dont want to crash the site either

Well if you want to truly test it you have to throw stuff at it until it slows down or halts. Previous people have suggested hiring companies that do this stuff.

Otherwise, how can you know its capacity until you've made it slow down or halt to see how much it can handle?

Its like asking how much gas can your car hold. Best way (unless you wimp out and check the manual) to tell is run it dry and fill it up until the gas wont fit in the tank anymore.