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Load testing? Try to take down your app for $1 with blitz.io

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$1 ph is only for Heroku apps - link is here http://blog.mudynamics.com/2011/08/11/blitz-io-scaling-out-h...

Yes, it's because they pro-rate add-ons by the second. If you sign up with Heroku, you immediately get 500 concurrencies as part of the free plan. Signing up directly with blitz.io, OTOH, gives you blogging and referral credits - see http://blitz.io/invite

There is beeswithmachineguns on github and that will cost some EC2 bucks.

That's not what their pricing page tells us. It's actually very expensive.

The Heroku pricing is pro-rated to the second: https://addons.heroku.com/blitz

Their price points are fine for enterprise customers, but I can't see smaller shops using this. There's definitely a hole in the market for a good load-testing service, but I see more a $50/month price point than $300/month.

Load testing is not a month-long event. Nobody does it 24/7 for 4 weeks straight. It's usually bursty for an hour or so of a day (aligned with a git push or continuous deployment), which bodes well for $1/hour http://blitz.io Heroku pricing.

Well, there's stability testing, where you want to submit your system to high(er) loads over an extended period of time. Personally I've only done it over 2 - 3 days, though, not 4 weeks, but for a critical system it might not be a bad idea.

It's going to cost you no more than $79/day * 2 for two days of load testing if you sign up directly to http://blitz.io. That's peanuts compared to anything else on the market. And with EC2 lowering inbound bandwidth costs, this only gets better!

One more thing. An m1.small instance on EC2 (on-demand pricing) will cost you around $60/month + bandwidth costs. So you need a multi-tenant load testing solution to amortize the costs and drive hourly price down, which is what we are doing.

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