Load Testing
Posted on May 29th, 2010 by Chris Coyier
There are a lot of reasons a site might go down. One of the hardest ones to anticipate is a flood of traffic hitting your site and your server not being prepared to handle it. Fortunately, you don’t have to wait around for it to happen to prepare for it. Load Impact is a web service which can load test your site. Much like us, they have a free service you can try out, and more robust plans for users with more robust needs.
You can run a load test on your site right now for free, courtesy of Load Impact:
