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Load testing using digital ocean - a tool I made

Posted on May 31, 2013

Hi everyone,

I made a load testing utility that starts a digital ocean instances and is used to benchmark your site. I hope someone finds it useful: https://github.com/rozap/minnowswithmachineguns



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Very cool! But does DO allow high levels of outbound traffic? Wouldn’t it trigger a flag for potential outbound DoS, which violates their Acceptable Use Policy?

I see you have a disclaimer about this in your GitHub documentation, but curious how large a test you’ve tried.

Haha. Potential for misuse: high <br> <br>good job though. :)

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