Web Stress and Performance Testing

I found this web stress testing tool called WAPT while i was browsing around the web and it seems they creating an interesting program to test your own server under various condition so you’ll know how your web server performance and limitation .. in my opinion this tool works great when used on shared server or known as shared hosting. And as you already knew that if you’re on shared hosting, you share the same resource with other site on your server, and because of it you have certain limitation, such as cpu resource usage, memory, etc

Although i haven't tried this tool yet, but if you really want to know about your server limitation i think you should try this tool (it's a shareware product but they’re giving 30 days trial) … but if you’re going to stress testing your own server (in this case shared server / shared hosting), please keep this in mind :

• Make sure to create backup before using this tool or similar tool like this just in case something bad happen to your host
• There’s high chance your account will be suspended by your webhosting company because you’re using to many server resource and slowing down other site in your server

Note: this tool require internet connection, because all the request made are from your computer (although there’s ip spoofing feature), maybe they should offer online demo to stress testing server without using my own internet connection speed which is .. slow

And i’ve tried using similar tool like this before, but at that time im not using it to stress testing my webhost .. but to find hole (i think some of you already knew what i'm talking about here because they’re also offering online test using their internet connection)… and guess what ? i got suspended within 2 days after registration :P ..