I guess this pretty vague question could be classified as a programming one. I did consider whether it belonged in the Ask Ubuntu / WordPress Development / Linux Administration communities- but of course I don’t like to spam either. Apologies up front if I made a huge mistake and caused you to have a bad day.
Take a linux server, it has a number of WordPress sites on it, and we can already guess that the dominant interpreted language is PHP when you consider the above scenario.
These are not live sites, they are simply sites copied from a production server.
I want to simulate random traffic to all of them at once to see if the server can handle the load. Perhaps a PHP script run from the command line can do this?
Just looking for ideas at this stage.
I have tried https://www.blitz.io/ – works wonderfully, however just one site at a time as far as I’m aware.
http://jmeter.apache.org/ will do the job but need way more time to configure than blitz.io