Hi Anupam, Why don't you try to stress your application via another GAE application (simulator) that you would write to see how it responds.
The scalability of GAE will allow to go high in your tests on both simulator and application. Read also this entire page: http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/quotas.html, you will see that the maximum quotas when billing is enabled are huge - > you shouldn't need to ask for more using the form you point to. regards didier On Nov 24, 10:20 am, Anupam <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > We have a product which is an online examination system. The product > has been used in the past and has done well on most of the occassions. > However at one of our clients site the servers failed(and it was > embarissing :) ). After a lot of discussions online, we concluded that > we needed to optimize our code. And we have optimized all our requests > since then. > Now again this next month (Starting 29th November 2010 upto say early > Jan 2011) we are expecting a large number of exams being conducted > through our applications. The count of students will be anywhere around > 10,000 to 15,000. Per day count could go to a maximum of 3,000. We just > want to be better prepared for the same. The following are our concerns: > > 1)http://code.google.com/support/bin/request.py?contact_type=AppEngineC... > What kind of resources should we ask for using the form above.? > > 2) How can we do some sort of server testing before we go live to our > clients. (The clients are paying heavily and will not tolerate poor > service) > We dont mind if we have to spend some of our server costs to test the > scaling of the servers. > > 3) Should we have multiple instances of application running as a back > up ? > > 4) Any other advice you would give for such a situation. > > Please let us know anything that could be useful. Even some simple > tests that you suggest or procedures we could use. This business is > extremely critical to us. Any help is appreciated .. > > Thanks and Regards, > Anupam M. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine for Java" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en.
