Load testing? Try to take down your app for $1 with blitz.io

http://gigaom.com/cloud/mu-dynamics-blitzio-app-load-testing/

by kowsik • 15 years ago

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visural• 15 years ago

$1 ph is only for Heroku apps - link is here http://blog.mudynamics.com/2011/08/11/blitz-io-scaling-out-h...

kowsik5• 15 years ago

Yes, it's because they pro-rate add-ons by the second. If you sign up with Heroku, you immediately get 500 concurrencies as part of the free plan. Signing up directly with blitz.io, OTOH, gives you blogging and referral credits - see http://blitz.io/invite

rorrr• 15 years ago

That's not what their pricing page tells us. It's actually very expensive.

kowsik5• 15 years ago

The Heroku pricing is pro-rated to the second: https://addons.heroku.com/blitz

donw• 15 years ago

Their price points are fine for enterprise customers, but I can't see smaller shops using this. There's definitely a hole in the market for a good load-testing service, but I see more a $50/month price point than $300/month.

kowsik5• 15 years ago

Load testing is not a month-long event. Nobody does it 24/7 for 4 weeks straight. It's usually bursty for an hour or so of a day (aligned with a git push or continuous deployment), which bodes well for $1/hour http://blitz.io Heroku pricing.

kowsik5• 15 years ago

One more thing. An m1.small instance on EC2 (on-demand pricing) will cost you around $60/month + bandwidth costs. So you need a multi-tenant load testing solution to amortize the costs and drive hourly price down, which is what we are doing.

stuntgoat• 15 years ago

There is beeswithmachineguns on github and that will cost some EC2 bucks.

Load testing? Try to take down your app for $1 with blitz.io

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