redline13-new-load-agent-location-manager-and-improved-spot-instance-prices

Load Agent Location Manager With our update, you can now control exactly which load agent locations you want to see and use. For example, if you only test on Virginian servers, it’d be best to only activate that load agent location, thus increasing your page’s reload time. You can also control the default subnet and security groups for all load agents: If you want to get started with the load agent location manager, begin by loggingRead More →

vredline13-aws-spot-instance-startup

We have improved the way error messages are displayed during test startup. Previously, error messages from AWS were being hidden. Rather than showing raw error from AWS, it would say “Automatically canceled due to test startup error”: The generic message was not clearly stating the issue. We’ve added two new updates that will fix this: Real-Time Pre-Test Messages First, during a test starting up with a Spot Instance request, we will show real time the messagesRead More →

EC2 Update

We’ve recently added EC2 region support for Ohio, and RedLine13 users now have access to even more servers on the East Coast of the United States. Amazon added the new server locations in Ohio in 2016, offering users more flexibility when it comes to EC2 instances. With this new addition, RedLine13 users can now run tests on servers in: Virginia (us-east-1) Ohio (us-east-2) California (us-west-1) Oregon (us-west-2) Ireland (eu-west-1) Frankfurt, Germany (eu-central-1) Sao Paolo, Brazil (sa-east-1)Read More →

Been following #AWS Reinvent and noticed the mention of AWS MarketPlace + HP Load Runner.  Turns out HP charges you more to run on your AWS, here is some basic analysis.   Public Pricing Community Edition – 50 virtual users Free. HP 150 – 150 Virtual Users 50$ per EC2 instance per hour + AWS instance cost HP 300 – 300 Virtual Users 125$ per EC2 instance per hour + AWS instance cost HP Load RunnerRead 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 →