Ted, I think the site is complicated and that they have a couple issues, buggy code and bandwidth.
Part of the site supplies real media video files (1.5 to 2MB each 1,000 files) for viewing, and pdf files (15KB to 20KB each 2,000 files) The URl is www.theblackbook.com >From what you are saying it looks like splitting the site would help most. Jim James E Harvey Corresponding Officer/M.I.S. bus: 717-637-8931 fax: 717-637-6766 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ted Roche Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 9:37 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NF] website bandwidth questions 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 [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ 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.
