Ask YC: Whats the best tool to load test a web app?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=156457

by shafqat • 18 years ago

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Need to load test our web app - any recommendations for tools that are easy to set up? I heard about JCrawler, but looking for something even simpler. Is there any simple online tool that can do this? Thanks a lot!

ericb2• 18 years ago

I'm working on a tool now that should be dead easy, but there's not a whole lot out there now for online tools. If you want me to email you when it's ready, shoot me an email. On gmail, I'm ebeland.

tlrobinson• 18 years ago

By "online" do you mean some sort of 3rd party service that you can unleash on your servers via a web app?

That could be a pretty cool service. Of course you would need to prevent it from being hijacked for DDoS purposes (maybe require the admin running the test to upload a file with a key to the root of their web server, to prove it's under their control)

ericb2• 18 years ago

By online, I do mean a 3rd party service like you're describing.

I was thinking of something like that for verification. Google webmaster tools does something similar by adding a meta tag, which is a nice way to do it.

mronge• 18 years ago

ApacheBench is great.

rob• 18 years ago

httperf

jdale27• 18 years ago

Slashdot.

nreece• 18 years ago

Checkout this blog entry for some ideas http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/05/07/besiege-your-web-a...

jaydub• 18 years ago

thanks for sharing that link. I'd like to try that out.

bmatheny• 18 years ago

I've used JMeter (http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/) for a few years now. It's easy to use and extend. The only thing I don't like is it doesn't play nice with AJAX.

sanswork• 18 years ago

I've used grinder with amazon ec2 to load test one of our sites before. It worked really well once I sorted out some issues with the clients communicating with my console but it made it very easy to keep adding machines until the load/speed was an issue.

kashif• 18 years ago

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=138170

dedalus• 18 years ago

I use keynote(www.keynote.com) or gomez(www.gomez.com) Better yet, would be Mercury Managed Services(MMS)

shafqat• 18 years ago

Fantastic response... exactly why I love Hacker News! Thanks all. I'm going with JMeter for now, but will report back success or failure.

Ask YC: Whats the best tool to load test a web app?

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