MultiQuestion Post: Load Testing/SE Optomization
I have a website that is currently getting around 200 hits a day.
It's a shared Linux Server with 48% memory utilized already and an average of .66 load.
In the coming weeks, I expect this site to get 1.5 million hits in a week (That's low ball.)
I need to get a guesstimate on how much traffic we're talking here because I might need to buy more BW (I have 35GB by default.) I also need to find the slow pages so I can try to optomize them and I need to make sure the server I'm on can take the load or move to a dedicated server.
I need to simulate 250K unique hits a day.
What would be my best tool and how would I go about accomplishing this?
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Ok, my Meta tags for my site are as follows:
<!-- BEGIN META INCLUDE -->
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<META http-equiv="description" content="It is the intention of Preferred Funeral Choices to make several cost effective and affordable funeral service options available to families of all economic backgrounds throughout the United States and Canada.">
<META NAME="keywords" content="Preferred Funeral Choices">
<META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index,follow">
<META NAME="revisit-after" CONTENT="2 days">
<!-- END META INCLUDE -->
My site (www
preferredfuneralchoices.com) is totally text based so it can be indexed.
How can I get my site rank up. As it is now we're not even being picked up by googles or netscape unless the user types "preferredfuneralchoices" which sucks.
Thanks for the help!
