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

28 points by kowsik 15y ago

stuntgoat 15y ago
There is beeswithmachineguns on github and that will cost some EC2 bucks.
visural 15y ago
$1 ph is only for Heroku apps - link is here http://blog.mudynamics.com/2011/08/11/blitz-io-scaling-out-heroku-apps-for-1hour/ http://blog.mudynamics.com/2011/08/11/blitz-io-scaling-out-h...
- kowsik 15y 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 http://blitz.io/invite
rorrr 15y ago
That's not what their pricing page tells us. It's actually very expensive.
- kowsik 15y ago
  The Heroku pricing is pro-rated to the second: https://addons.heroku.com/blitz https://addons.heroku.com/blitz
- donw 15y 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.
  - kowsik 15y 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 http://blitz.io Heroku pricing.
    - vetler 15y ago
      Well, there's stability testing, where you want to submit your system to high(er) loads over an extended period of time. Personally I've only done it over 2 - 3 days, though, not 4 weeks, but for a critical system it might not be a bad idea.
      - kowsik 15y ago
        It's going to cost you no more than $79/day * 2 for two days of load testing if you sign up directly to http://blitz.io http://blitz.io. That's peanuts compared to anything else on the market. And with EC2 lowering inbound bandwidth costs, this only gets better!
  - kowsik 15y 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.
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28 points by kowsik 15y ago

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

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

kowsik 15y 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 http://blitz.io/invite

rorrr 15y ago

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

kowsik 15y ago
The Heroku pricing is pro-rated to the second: https://addons.heroku.com/blitz https://addons.heroku.com/blitz
donw 15y 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.
- kowsik 15y 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 http://blitz.io Heroku pricing.
  - vetler 15y ago
    Well, there's stability testing, where you want to submit your system to high(er) loads over an extended period of time. Personally I've only done it over 2 - 3 days, though, not 4 weeks, but for a critical system it might not be a bad idea.
    - kowsik 15y ago
      It's going to cost you no more than $79/day * 2 for two days of load testing if you sign up directly to http://blitz.io http://blitz.io. That's peanuts compared to anything else on the market. And with EC2 lowering inbound bandwidth costs, this only gets better!
- kowsik 15y 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.
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