title: Simulating 2000 concurrent connections, is apache bench reliable?
body: <p>I need to load test or simulate 2K connections to my web application to see how it handles load etc.</p>
  
  <p>If I run apache bench on my laptop, I'm guessing it can't possible simulate this?</p>
  
  <p>Does this mean I should fire up seperate VM's to hit a production server, each doing maybe 200 seperate connections each?</p>
  
  <p>Would I be doing 1 request x 2K concurrent users?</p>
  
  <p>Or can I play around like 500 x 400 to get the same results?</p>