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by rlonn 18y ago
I've filed a ticket about excluding 127/8, private network IPv4 address space, and multicast address space. Anything I forgot?
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by rlonn 18y ago
Thank you. We have had a ton of visits and a good number of registrations, although only a handful of paid accounts as of yet. But that's OK, it's natural that people want to try before they buy. We hope they'll convert once they have teste
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by rlonn 18y ago
Yeah we only allow paying users to even see the recorder, which is probably something we need to change I think. We want to give paying users extra features, but we also need to show people what extra features they can get, otherwise they w
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by rlonn 18y ago
We need to be more open about what security measures we have built into the service, I think. I can tell you right now that the free tests most people are running have a built-in cutoff feature that aborts the test if it detects that the se
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by rlonn 18y ago
That is exactly our opinion also. We understand that some think it is a bit scary letting people test any site they want, but the fact is that anyone with a DSL connection at home can choose any site they want out there and put a lot more
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by rlonn 18y ago
Siege is just another load testing software. The new thing here is that we offer load testing as an online service. No need to install, configure or maintain any special software or hardware. Test configurations and results are always acces
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by rlonn 18y ago
Litmus is more about functionality/compatibility testing, unless I'm mistaken, while our service is all about performance testing. Soasta does essentially the same thing as we do although they are a lot more expensive and aim for larger cli
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by rlonn 18y ago
Strange, 50 simulated clients don't seem to stress Google much :-)
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by rlonn 18y ago
Yeah we have a restriction on number of started tests to the same hostname address, but it is actually more or less redundant as we have also several checks per IP address. I might as well explain how it works as people seem to mention thes
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by rlonn 18y ago
That's our somewhat restrictive security features that notice some object being loaded as part of your webpage, an object that other sites also use. For example, many sites load urchin.js from google-analytics.com. This means that the daily
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by rlonn 18y ago
Uh oh, but this is the kind of feedback we really need, so thanks a lot. The registration procedure is perhaps the most important part of all to get streamlined. What happened was that the free plan was preselected when you entered the regi
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by rlonn 18y ago
It depends in what way you mean. It generates traffic and measures performance in a similar way as ab/httperf. The biggest difference is that it is an online service, which means you don't need to own any servers yourself to run ab or httpe
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by rlonn 18y ago
Oops, I'm filing a bug report about that right away. Thanks.
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by rlonn 18y ago
It is mostly custom. The load generator is written in C and using libCURL - http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl 5,000 users is what one single instance of the non-threaded load generator can simulate today. We have some optimizations we can make
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by rlonn 18y ago
Thank you, and while I'm at it: thank you very much everybody for all the great feedback. It is very appreciated! The session recorder is pretty cool, we think. We have managed to make it zero-configuration (i.e. no user configuration neces
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by rlonn 18y ago
The simplest test you can run will just load a singe page, and all its dependencies (images etc) over and over again. However, if you register an account you can create your own load scripts that load different pages, with pauses in between
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by rlonn 18y ago
We actually have that feature also :-) Although it doesn't kick in until you try and run a test with higher load levels. Then you need to have a "loadimpact.txt" file in the root of your server, or the test won't start.
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by rlonn 18y ago
We don't want to make the different subscription offers too complicated, which is why we've stayed away from having people pay per number of tests executed, or similar. I agree that people will want to tweak and run several tests, but a 1-d
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by rlonn 18y ago
We have found that some people like using the service as an optimization/development tool. Starting a load test is painless enough that they can write some code, test it with our service, change some things, test again, etc. and sometimes g
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by rlonn 18y ago
That is actually on its way also. We're going to offer a "single test" option, where a user gets to use the system for an hour. But maybe we should make it 24 hours instead?
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by rlonn 18y ago
The graph is pretty flat, which indicates the test is not really putting any stress on your server. The load added does not make much of a difference for improvingtheweb.com. One thing we need to put more effort in, I think, is to communica
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by rlonn 18y ago
We have a ton of security features to limit abuse of the system. A site that cannot handle the impact of a single basic (free) test can be DOS:ed once, yes. But we have a limit on how often we will generate load to (or from, really) individ
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by rlonn 18y ago
About the graphs, we're going to add more info about different graph types but for now we just have one help text explaining "strange" graphs.
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