Load or Performance Testing

[RoyK]

Can anyone recommend any tools for this? I keep seeing hosting sites advertise unlimited band width. Not that I believe it, but I don't believe it.

[monalin]

There are plenty of sites that offer unlimited bandwidth. Don't see any reason why that wouldn't be possible.

As far as performance tools go AQtime is not a bad piece of software. I found it to be a little difficult to use with websites though.

If you use a MSSQL database don't forget about the SQL Profiler that thing has saved my life time and time again. You can even get it to show the plans for each SQL Query so you can further optimize each call to the database.

If you're one of the lucky few who have access to the VS Team System 2008 and maybe 2005 as well, then there is a built in profiler which is incredible, i use it all the time and i love it. Team System also comes with the ability to make test projects, review code coverage, code analysis and much more.

[RoyK]

So many of the websites that I have seen that offer unlimited bandwidth looks like resellers. Those resellers will try to get as many sites on one server as space will allow. If you notice, they don't advertise any guarantee response times. And only a handful tell you what kind of machine you will be running on.