I've used siege for a long time and never had any problems.
However, I'm easily tempted by the new and shiny which led me to find another great HTTP benchmarking tool: https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta
However, I'm easily tempted by the new and shiny which led me to find another great HTTP benchmarking tool: https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta
Another tool I forgot to mention was wrk (and now wrk2) which are unique in that they are scriptable via lua.
This obviously isn't terribly useful if you're just trying to gauge request rates, or apply load, but it's very useful if you need a repeatable way to not only measure request rates but see how your server is doing under load.