What in the blue hell is web-hosting/webserver simulation? How do you simulate a web hosting services over LAN?

ps/ Plz..I'm so confused...

Running a webserver on a lan isnt all that much different than running it anywhere else is it?

-Brendan

Originally posted by HRBrendan
Running a webserver on a lan isnt all that much different than running it anywhere else is it?

-Brendan

I guess the difference is that you don't have hundreds of users on the box causing you problems. That would be hard to simulate.

The only thing that springs to mind is shoving apache on a lan machine then writing a quick proggie that opens x amount of socket connections every second on it - not really useful unless you want to see the limitations of the hosting software - or as in my case - debugging a little webserver i coded in Delphi ;)

Not too hard to simulate......

Webserver Stress Tool simulates any number of simultaneous users accessing a webserver. Just select the URLs of your server or web application, choose the number of users and you are told how long your customers have to wait when visiting your website and how your webserver performs under heavy load. Works with all webservers! New in Version 5.1: SSL Support

http://www.padring.com/soft/Internet/ServerTools/WebserverStressTool.html

one difference is a webserveron a lan, is that you can have it so you host any domain you want, even microsoft.com, granted onlu people usuing ur dns can see it :()

As I had expected, ya'all been really helpful and for that I salute you...

ps/ Mr. davidb, can u explain more about granting access to client using dns... it sound interesting...

and for a simple, already installed test...

ab -n 10000 -c 100 http://yourlanmachine/

opens 100 simultaneous connections and downloads the contents from the http address, to a count of 10,000 times.

Adjust as required.

Your mileage may vary.