[Discuss] Host test script

[Eric Chadbourne]

Great links.  I was immediately able to provide grockable optimization advice.

What about testing on the server itself?  For example vendors often hide CPU information in vague marketing terminology.  I was thinking maybe log the time periodically while running a few queries, do a bunch of file modifications, etc.  Then I could offer better advice to the client on which hosting service to use.  I love DigitalOcean but that's not a good enough argument.  Would this even be worth my time?

How do you all recommend hosting providers?

Thanks,
Eric Chadbourne

‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
On April 5, 2018 4:37 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) <greg at freephile.com> wrote:

> Thanks for that link Rajiv. Nice comprehensive tool that I had forgotten about.
>
> A lot of the info you can get from Google's [Speed Insights](https://developers.google.com/speed/), Chrome DevTools or [Firefox Developer Tools](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools).
>
> I use [Apache Bench](https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/programs/ab.html) for local testing and establishing a baseline before tweaking anything on the server.
>
> Not directly related, but there is also https://www.browserling.com/ for testing different browsers.
>
> ~ Greg
>
> Greg Rundlett
> https://eQuality-Tech.com
> https://freephile.org
>
> On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 3:17 PM, Rajiv Aaron Manglani <rajiv at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
>> try https://www.webpagetest.org
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 5, 2018, at 2:44 PM, Eric Chadbourne wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I have a client reporting performance issues.  We're utilizing two
>>> hosting companies.  I would like to generally see which performs better
>>> for hosting something like WordPress.  Does such a tool already exist?
>>>
>>> If not I was thinking of whipping up a little test script in PHP-CLI to
>>> make some basic tests.  What do you think?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Eric Chadbourne
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Discuss mailing list
>>> Discuss at blu.org
>>> http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
>> _______________________________________________
>> Discuss mailing list
>> Discuss at blu.org
>> http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss