[ale] Example large generic website for load testing?

[Mark@markulmer.com]

Allen,
Beyond just raw power testing ... I always like to suggest security requirements now. I suggest that penetration testing of server group be done before, during and after your load testing. Regarding SSL, having only the right ciphers enabled and disabled, decryption performance, etc are important tasks onto themselves. Also best to know how specific DOS and DDOS techniques affect you before any apps are introduced. What about any devices that maybe put in-line, such as IPS, IDS, HIDS, SSL decryption, caching proxy, web application firewall, xml gateways, file scanning, federated sign in, etc? You will want to include these all in the load testing.  

Good Luck,
Mark Ulmer, CISSP

> On Aug 31, 2016, at 4:27 PM, Beddingfield, Allen <allen at ua.edu> wrote:
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> I am looking for an example generic website that could be used for testing purposes.  I thought that some sort of a thing would exist somewhere in the wild, but I'm not really finding anything.  Essentially, I have a group of web servers behind a load balancer, I want to put a web site with a lot of links, random images, etc... on them, and hammer against the with JMeter.  The goal is a performance test of the filesystem on the web servers/performance of them, more than the load balancer, etc...
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> Anyone know of any sort of examples/templates that exist for that sort of testing?  If not, I'm just going to have to start looking for large sites on some of our shared web servers to copy off and use for this.
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> Thanks.
> Allen B.
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