[ale] OT: Interest in Server Load Testing

[Jeff Hubbs]

BTW, please assume we *would* give the customer their server back...this
would not be some ploy to amass large quantities of hardware...

;-)

- Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Hubbs 
> Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 2:48 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: [ale] OT: Interest in Server Load Testing
> 
> 
> Would any of you or your employers have any interest in 
> contracting out or
> subcontracting out server load testing (WWW, mail, database)? 
>  It's a line
> of business we're thinking of getting into and I'm trying to 
> characterize
> the likely market.  
> 
> The arrangement would go something like this:  1) customer calls us up
> saying they have a server, they want to know how many 
> users/transactions per
> second or how many simultaneous users their server can take 
> before it croaks
> 2) they give us the server and we work out a test plan 3) we 
> punish the
> server 4) we work up a report for the customer 5) we deposit 
> their check
> (probably a fixed fee per test).  
> 
> Does anyone know if anyone else does this in town or how much 
> per test such
> a service might be worth?  I've already got a pretty good 
> handle on how to
> do this kind of work, but I'm trying to gauge what level of 
> interest in the
> service there might be.
> 
> - Jeff
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