Introduction
We’ve setup 12 pages of the testing site on DebugBear to see the impact of the tests.
Results
- 141 requests between 6am and 7am.
- 1.95MB of bandwidth used.
In comparison
Safestyle’s site on a normal hour do
- ~20k requests
- ~350MB of bandwidth used.
Conclusion
Some servers (especially on shared spaces) are very bad at handling a sudden rise of requests but most server should not be impacted by DebugBear tests.
What to do if the server is impacted
- If the server is impacted then we need to optimise its load balancing possibly using a CDN or changing the server configuration.
- The best thing we can do on your side is spread the tests on 24h to balance the requests to the server.