Stress testing vBulletin 4?

[findingpeace]

We've recently migrated from Apache to Litespeed and noticed some really nice improvements. I also configured Litespeed Cache to so that guests see a 2 minute cache of the site.

The reason for these changes is that we have upcoming media appearances that are likely to lead to large spikes in traffic. The last time this happened, we were linked on the front page of Huffington Post and it completely killed our server (which probably led to losing a lot of potential new users).

Reading through George L's awesome blogs, Litespeed Cache (or Apache + Varnish) seemed to be the golden solution to our problem.

Now that I've got it up and running, is there a way to test how it'll work during a traffic spike? Basically, I want to simulate 500-1000 guest requests to the forum & CMS.

Thanks!

[ozzy47]

Perhaps something like this, http://loadimpact.com

[findingpeace]

This is very cool, thanks Ozzy!

[Zachery]

I'd move your static images, and JS off site/server to a CDN service, it has a ton of advantages itself.

[findingpeace]

Originally Posted by Zachery

I'd move your static images, and JS off site/server to a CDN service, it has a ton of advantages itself.

Hi Zachery, do you have any suggestions for free or cheap CDNs that work well with vB4?

[Zachery]

<a href="http://www.maxcdn.com/solutions/cms/vbulletin-cdn/" target="_blank">http://www.maxcdn.com/solutions/cms/vbulletin-cdn/</a>

the instructions are good. But there are tons of ways to do this, from using a crappy shared webhost to offload image serving to get a proper CDN account with someone like AWS/Azure and running on it from there.