Many tools are available to benchmark a web server. The better-known ones are Apache Bench (AB), Siege, JMeter, and Tsung. Although JMeter (https://jmeter.apache.org/) and Tsung (http://tsung.erlang-projects.org/) are very interesting load-testing tools and should be explored when doing more advanced testing in the context of system administration, we will focus on AB and Siege for our development purposes.
AB is included with the Apache web server's development tools and is installed by default in Linux for PHP images that contain PHP binaries. Otherwise, AB can be found in a separate Apache development tools installation package on most Linux distributions. It is important to note that Apache Bench does not ...
