On 12/7/06, James E Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there a legitimate "DOS" test out there one could use to run against a > website to make sure the bandwidth was sufficient up to a pre-determined > point? >
Google "web site load testing" to learn about the subject. You can do something cheap and dirty with VFP, or pay a company for far more precise testing. If you're worried about your bandwidth use, you should also look at slimming down the load on your pages by cleaning up your HTML by pulling out the JavaScript and CSS into separate files, stripping excessive HTML with tools like Tidy. > Part of the site is using a service to create dynamic pages, and it crashes > and the whole site goes down. Is there a way to protect against the whole > site going down? So, the dynamic module is crashing the http server? There are a couple of tactics to consider: 1. Fix the dynamic code so it doesn't crash. 2. Split the site to use more than one http server, and run the buggy code on only one of them. 3. Put a caching web server like squid in front of the dynamic web server, so it can more rapidly serve the static content and pass the dynamic requests on to the web server. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
