Server Performance Test

Networks don't run under a constant load - there are times of both high and low traffic. Servers therefore need free capacities to absorb periodic load peaks which could cause a server overload. A server performance test helps to determine the needed buffer so that the network is prepared for every situation.

A server performance test often has a strong focus on the webserver's performance. The server performance test application Webserver Stress Tool is a powerful HTTP-client/server test application designed to pinpoint critical performance issues in websites (also intranet-websites) or web servers that may prevent optimal experience for the site's visitors and for employees working with the intranet.

Webserver Stress Tool is a comprehensive testing tool. It is designed not only for load tests, stress tests, or ramp tests, but also for a server performance test - this test queries single URLs of a webserver or web application to identify and discover elements that may be responsible for a slower than expected performance. It provides a unique opportunity to optimize server settings or application configurations by testing various implementations of single web pages/script to identify the fastest code or settings.

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PRTG Network Monitor is a comprehensive monitoring solution that covers the entire range of bandwidths, usage and availability monitoring. PRTG gathers long term usage data and thus complements and often even supersedes a server performance test by delivering an exact image of the real existing load on servers and the entire network.

Special sensors for monitoring e.g. SQL-servers, web-servers, file-servers, and others continuosly monitor the servers within a network. Processing a server performance test PRTG checks the load on the server and delivers exact data on it. But PRTG does even more: during the complete server performance test it monitors the entire network and therefore also shows the impact of the server load on the entire network.

PRTG Network Monitor is available as freeware edition with 10 sensors and in different commercial editions from 100 to unlimited sensors. Each edition comes with the entire features set including WMI-monitoring, SNMP and Packet Sniffing, sensors for web-, SQL- or file-servers and many more.

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