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How to throttle a droplet's network bandwidth to simulate a busy server?

Posted on December 10, 2020

Is there a way to throttle a droplet’s network bandwidth to simulate a busy server? I’m looking for a slow (long) ping response. Thanks.



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Hi there,

What I could suggest is getting started with this tutorial on load testing:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/an-introduction-to-load-testing

You will be able to load test your website and Droplet to see how it performs under heavy loads.

Hope that this helps! Regards, Bobby

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