4 posts tagged with "PHP"

PHP powers roughly 77% of all websites with a known server-side language — yet most PHP developers ship code without ever running a load test. The app works fine in development, handles a handful of users on staging, and then crumbles when real traffic arrives. Load testing catches that gap before your users do: it verifies that your application handles the traffic you actually expect, not just the traffic your laptop can produce.

This guide covers what load testing means for PHP, how to pick the right tool, how the main options compare, and how to write and run a real multi-step load test — on plain PHP or Laravel — in minutes.

We're opening up access to VoltTest Cloud — the managed platform for running large-scale load tests without provisioning a single server. Until now, cloud mode has been limited to a small group of early testers. Starting today, anyone can join the waitlist, and we're approving access in waves.

This post covers what VoltTest Cloud is, what you get in the closed beta, and exactly how the access process works from waitlist to your first cloud test run.

Choosing a PHP stress test tool usually means a painful trade-off: the popular load testing tools all live outside PHP, so you end up writing scenarios in JavaScript, Java, or XML instead of the language your app is built in. This guide takes a different approach. We'll cover what stress testing actually means for a PHP application, what to look for in a tool, how the main options compare, and how to run your first stress test on plain PHP or Laravel in just a few minutes — without leaving your Composer workflow.

Performance testing is crucial in modern application development, yet many developers skip it due to complex tools that don’t fit into PHP workflows. Today, I’m excited to introduce VoltTest PHP SDK, a powerful load testing tool with a PHP-native interface backed by Go’s exceptional performance capabilities.