Hello,

I have designed a website using ASP ,Sql server ,a very little bit of java etc.

This website has not gone "live" yet ie. the public cannot access it. I am having major worries about how fast/slow it will be once 100's or 1000's of users access it. With just me accesing it, it is VERY quick!!

Things I did to increase the speed was indexing, stored procedures, doing all ASP BEFORE reaching the HTML tag and then all the obvious things like keeping jpeg's as small as possible etc. etc.

My questions are -
what factors determine the speed of your site / what can I do to make sure that my site will be fast??

We are thinking of moving to a dedicated server - will this make a MAJOR difference??

Does anyone know of tools to "stress-test" a website. I downloaded wcat.exe from Microsoft, but I cannot get it to work?? Is there anything else out there!?

I'm sure there are MANY people who have the same questions/fears!!

Any suggestions please.
Thanks,
T