{"id":2521,"date":"2011-08-17T16:59:28","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T20:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/?p=2521"},"modified":"2012-03-14T15:47:26","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T19:47:26","slug":"cloud-load-testing-generator-now-1hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/2011\/08\/cloud-load-testing-generator-now-1hour\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Load Testing Generator Now $1\/hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s no doubt that generating load from anyplace in the world at just the push of a button is one of the cloud&#8217;s killer applications. Since we <a href=\"\/load-testing\/features\/cloud.html\">first released the ability to generate load<\/a> from the cloud back in late 2009 people have logged over 33,000 hours of remote load testing from the cloud. And not a crippled cheapo service, either, but full blown, enterprise quality testing with expert technical support backed by a professional services team.<\/p>\n<p>I still get a kick out of running load tests from the cloud, specifically watching Amazon&#8217;s EC2 spin up dozens of computers and knowing they&#8217;re automatically being configured, and all of the load test data is being sent automagically. The zero config\/push button automation is something I&#8217;ve always insisted upon, partially from being lazy, but partially from knowing there&#8217;s nothing productive about configuring a bunch of details by hand. The part of performance tuning is actually making websites faster, not spending hours configuring tests or setting up load generators.<\/p>\n<p>At $1\/hour\/load generator the cost of generating load from outside of your network is incredibly cheap. Once you own a Load Tester license, generating the typical 1,000 or 5,000 concurrent user test is only $2-$4\/hour extra, and a fairly large 100,000 concurrent user test is only $67. Compare that to the cost of configuring and maintaining your own load generators!<\/p>\n<p>Michael Czeiszperger<br \/>\nFounder, Web Performance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s no doubt that generating load from anyplace in the world at just the push of a button is one of the cloud&#8217;s killer applications. Since we <a href=\"\/load-testing\/features\/cloud.html\">first released the ability to generate load<\/a> from the cloud back in late 2009 people have logged over 33,000 hours of remote load testing from the cloud. And not a crippled cheapo service, either, but full blown, enterprise quality testing with expert technical support backed by a professional services team.<br \/>\nI still get a kick out of running load tests from the cloud, specifically watching Amazon&#8217;s EC2 spin up dozens of computers and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/2011\/08\/cloud-load-testing-generator-now-1hour\/\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-load-tester-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2521"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3263,"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521\/revisions\/3263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webperformance.com\/load-testing-tools\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}