For most large-scale companies, the active user base is in the tens and hundreds of thousands. When this number of people starts experiencing slow page loads or crashes due to peak traffic, it becomes a massive issue.

What makes matters worse is that by the time people start complaining and pointing out the problem, it is already too late — the company’s reputation and revenue are already at risk. Considering how dealing with these issues also takes some time, it is one of the problems that should be prevented at all costs, rather than just being fixed when it happens.

Today, multiple big companies operate in niches that rely on seamless user experience: SaaS, fintech, and online marketplaces that cannot provide 100% guaranteed quick and convenient interactions are going to lose to their competitors in an instant. That is why detecting infrastructure bottlenecks early on is so valuable.

Overload.su is a team of stress-testing experts that provides one of the most comprehensive tools available on the market. Launched by Jordan McRae in August 2024, it has already helped over 20,000 clients ensure 99.99% uptime and protect their websites from collapsing under high load.

Here’s how Overload.su’s unique approach makes it possible.

Traditional infrastructure testing vs. realistic stress tests

While many enterprises rely on synthetic monitoring and after-the-fact logs, Overload.su chooses a proactive way of dealing with potential threats by relying on its realistic stress-testing service. 

“Synthetic testing often misses dynamic bottlenecks that only appear under stress — cache saturation, slow database queries, and third-party API limitations often only show themselves at the worst times, when fixing them is way too late, but still necessary. Imagine dealing with these during a Black Friday sale — it’s a disaster. Without proper detection, your unnoticed bottlenecks scale into outages, which leads to loss of revenue and brand damage — and there’s only one way to prevent it,” says Jordan McRae, CEO of Overload.su.

Unlike a massive portion of its competitors, Overload.su uses realistic stress-testing models that are tailored to simulate business-specific scenarios, imitating diverse user behaviors across different regions and device types. These tests are specifically designed to showcase the most likely edge-case failures and infrastructure chokepoints that require fixing beforehand.

How Overload.su detects bottlenecks before users do

The team behind Overload.su runs controlled traffic spikes at various loads, which enables them to measure system response time, failure thresholds, and latency. Experts are able to identify queuing issues, backend lag, under-provisioned services, and scaling delays.

After that, the service will provide the business owner with a comprehensive report that shows exactly where performance breaks down and includes recommendations for infrastructure and code optimization. Overload.su offers fast onboarding, flexible pricing, and support for complex environments with microservices, multi-cloud structure, legacy stacks, etc.

“Our goal is to provide our clients with every tiny bit of relevant information that can help them mitigate potential problems or fix them completely as quickly as possible. We don’t consider ourselves to be a simple service provider — we are your testing partner, and we offer our extensive expertise to help you secure your revenue flow and increase customer satisfaction,” says Jordan McRae.