What is Free Load Testing? example with JMeter

We created RedLine13 and call it (Almost) Free Load Testing. So, what is it? Other load testing companies talk about free load testing. But is it? First, let’s talk about (Almost) Free Load Testing and why we call it that. Two Cost Components of RedLine13 There are two cost components of RedLine13 load testing: RedLine13 costs and AWS costs. If you choose the free RedLine13 subscription, then your RedLine13 cost is nothing. Free! The free subscriptionRead More →

RedLine13 Partners - AWS Advanced Technology Partner

Many companies are struggling with the need for comprehensive load testing, the cost of load testing and limited budgets. This post will tell you about something you may not have considered: Load Testing with AWS Spot vs On-Demand Instances. To begin with, RedLine13 understands the high cost of load testing. If you don’t know the RedLine13 story, that’s what led us to create RedLine13 for our own testing. There are many different types of load testingRead More →

Estimating AWS Costs for Load Tests

Estimating your AWS costs for load tests is an essential fact of life provided you have any sort of budget.  If you’ve run any number of load tests with us before, you may have come to appreciate the “Data & Server Cost” box on your load test summary metrics. The green box does a reasonable job of approximating your projected AWS spend for your test, with a few caveats we will discuss.Read More →

A JMeter Soak Test is a long running load test using JMeter. We’ll talk more below. But if you’re going to run a long test, there are costs that need to be understood. We’ll talk about that with an example from RedLine13 customer University of California. What is Soak Testing There is plenty of information out there. Software Testing Help says: “It is a type of performance testing to check if an Application Under Test (AUT)Read More →

Most people don’t realize that there are unavailable AWS instance types in certain regions. In other words, every AWS region does not have every AWS instance type. RedLine13 is an AWS Advanced Technology Partner. When you are ready to choose your AWS instance type in RedLine13, you will see ALL of the AWS instance types. But those that are unavailable in that region will be disabled so you can’t choose them. In this example you seeRead More →

SmartBear Pricing is like Expensive Cars

Congratulations SmartBear on releasing LoadNinja, a cloud-based load testing solution. SmartBear pricing is still too expensive for most businesses. Scalability is important, as well as ease of use. But if businesses can’t afford it, then that’s not smart. The cheapest price level is $1,799 for a year and it’s full of limits: 1,000 virtual users, 100 load testing hours and 1 hour Maximum Test. The limitations are still there at $2,999 and $5,999 per year. RedLine13Read More →

Free Trial is not Free - RedLine13 is Free Load Testing

When doing a Free Load Testing Comparison, ‘Free’ seems to mean very different things! Let’s be honest. Free load testing is not the same as a 30 day free trial. What good is that? You’re going to be paying on day 31, day 32 and on and on. And those ‘free trials’ have limitations on ‘free load testing’. The whole reason that RedLine13 got into the load testing business was because we had seen how expensiveRead More →

RedLine13 Partners - AWS Advanced Technology Partner

Amazon just changed EC2 pricing to bill per second https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/. You’re load testing and trying to keep your costs low. What does this Amazon change mean for you? Let’s see how you can save more with Redline13 Load Testing. Server Shutdown Setting Redline13 has  added a new setting for users to take advantage of AWS per second billing. Now instead of leaving servers running for an hour, we let you choose how long they should run. That means youRead More →

At RedLine13 we aim to offer our users a streamlined, informative, and reliable service that often times works in sync with other load testing platforms and services. From running simple URL tests to testing various API’s, we’ve got your back. As RedLine13 continues to offer some of the most competitive subscription pricing on the market (after all, we are “almost” free load testing), RedLine13 becomes a viable and appealing solution not only to be used independently,Read More →

We’ve had a couple of beta testers say they do not have an AWS account on Amazon.  We were kind of surprised! If you do not have an Amazon AWS account, you can sign up for one easily at http://aws.amazon.com/.  Signing up is free and you will only pay for the services that are used.  As an example, if you do a load test of 50,000 users for an hour the approximate cost is $2.00 and wouldRead More →