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how does one test this? write a script that uses threads to access pages in parallel? see what happens...temporarily pay for more hardware (i have a virtual machine with linode), gain some understanding, ..., profit

any particular services, snippets or frameworks people use to test this?

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Apachebench ships with Apache and can be used for simple testing.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/programs/ab.html

For more realistic mutli-page tests Selenium works well - spin up a few EC2 or similar machines, run Selenium Grid and you can get a decent idea of how your site will cope.

For a simple Wordpress blog Apachebench should suffice though.

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