Testing my Server for Traffic Spikes?

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Published on 2010-02-18T05:15:37Z Indexed on 2010/03/26 15:03 UTC
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Is there a service I can use to test the reliability of my server? I need to check if my server can handle a large traffic spike.

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Server runs Nginx 0.7.65 on CentOS 5.3, serving only static files.

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