: How to know the request handling capacity of my website? I want to find out how much traffic my website can handle. Like for example, 1000 simultaneous requests per second, or 1 lakh visitors

@Rivera981

You could - in accordance with your hoster - run a load test on that site. There are several tools to do this, e. g. Apache ships the "ab" (Apache Benchmark) tool, to meassure pure hits and provides you with min/max/mean values. Though you should start with a low amount of requests (5 concurrent) and then start to increase the number of requests (5-10 hits/sec. steps). This will give you a basic picture of what your site might be able to handle.

Keep in mind, that if this is a shared-hosting site, that your load test might affect other websites hosted on that same server. So be gently with your testing. Also your provider might have some countermeassures in place, that might deny these kinds of load tests.

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@Mendez628

In regards to how much the site can support, there are many factors here:


What are the upload/download speeds of the lines?
What is the spec of the server?
How many other websites are on the server and what is their consumption of resource?
How big the data you're sending out is (a small HTML site vs video streaming).


Of course, the fact you're on a shared hosting means it's very difficult to test as well and the limits could differ - if you perform a test while another site on the same server decides to execute a very big/resource hungry SQL query then your results will be affected by this.

They key thing is to monitor the site and if/when you experience issues consider moving to a VPS with dedicated minimum resources or a dedicated server.

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