After a year as a completely free offering, we have introduced a new Pro version with our most advanced features available. We will continue to have a free offering, and we will continue to expand the capabilities of both the free offering and the Pro version based on customer feedback. For example, we have added free services such as big timing scaling,long duration tests, Node.js support, testing from any and all AWS Regions, and lots more overRead More →

Amazon has announced that accounts created after December, 2013 have an undetermined limit on the number of spot instances that can be created. “By default, you are limited to a total of 5 Spot Instance requests in a region. New AWS accounts might have lower limits.” This has created a lot of confusion with RedLine customers since new Amazon accounts seem to be set to a default mostly of 0.  And existing customers that used toRead More →

With all of the large load tests that are running on RedLine now, we have made some big internal improvements that expand our scalability.  This means that large users will not run into bottlenecks at the RedLine server level.  Essentially, we have decreased our load on our database server with far fewer writes.  We’ve replaced our Java SQS queue processor with one written in node.js.  It screams now! So bring the load!Read More →

It is fun to watch the large scale tests that people are using RedLine for. Here is an example of a test with 10 m3.2xlarge servers each simulating 2000 users each hitting the applications 50 times from the AWS Ireland data center. So 1,000,000 hits on their application in a couple of minutes. Here is the graph of a successful test:   As you can see the load was about 10,000 hits per second and theRead More →

When you chose your Load Agent deployment options, we do a real time call to AWS to find the current pricing of Spot Instances. We up this a bit to create an estimated bid price. However, if you are deploying a large number of spot instances of one type in one region, you can actually bid up the price of what is available. In this example, the current bid price of an m3.2XLarge is $0.25 perRead More →

We recently expanded support across all AWS regions.  This means you can run load agents from any mix or match of regions.  If you are testing an app only available in Japan, then test from there. If you are deploying a worldwide app, then have load agents deployed in each region.Read More →

RedLine13 has been accepted to the Amazon Marketplace. This is another big step in making our service available widely to the Amazon Community. We will be at the AWS Conference in Las Vegas in the CloudBees booth, or email us at info at redline13.com. We would love to get your feedback!Read More →

We continue to have users explore new boundaries for testing.  One user has completed 12 hour tests with over 5 Million Interactions run. We also have users that are doing 100,000 in 1 minute. We had one user start up 25 m3.2xlarge instances.  It cost him $5.00 for an hour of Amazon rental time. We recently did several upgrades to our database infrastructure that should allow for even higher levels of performance. We are creating aRead More →

We are a fairly new service and our early users and bringing new use cases. We are listening and trying to expand our service to meet your needs! We have a couple of users that are trying to emulate over 1,000,000 users.  This overwhelmed our implementation. We have increased the size of the servers we are hosting on Amazon. More importantly we just released yesterday a major upgrade. We have replaced the stat collection with aRead More →

We have recently added the option to deploy spot instances in AWS Ireland for our European users. Note this gives you the flexibility to test out a worldwide load – so you can have load agents in Virginia, Oregon, California and Ireland now!Read More →