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Web Infrastructure: Relieve Web Performance Anxiety: Page 5 of 5

7. Test any authentication servers, including LDAP directories. Most LDAP directories work independent of the Web servers.

8. If your site contains mail forms, test if your e-mail server can handle the traffic by spamming it.

9. Test the entire infrastructure. This will be the most time-consuming test to set up--you'll be simultaneously hitting the Web server, access databases and authentication systems'and handling SSL.