Generally, I agree. I worked on one website where we made a pre-prod version public but restricted by IP. We had a load test vendor (whose IPs were whitelisted

Generally, I agree. I worked on one website where we made a pre-prod version public but restricted by IP. We had a load test vendor (whose IPs were whitelisted) hammer the site from locations worldwide. This let us compare latency from, say, APAC vs EMEA.