[ale] OT: Interest in Server Load Testing

[James Kinney]

Well, there goes MY suggestion :)

"Gee, Mr. CFO. We never said we would give it back. But doesn't the report
look nice in the leather cover?!"

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On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Jeff Hubbs wrote:

> 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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