Alertsite Launches Outsourced Load Testing Service

Web monitoring company offering full-service web performance management with industry leader Mentora.

BOCA RATON, FLA. - (March 16, 2004) - AlertSite, a leading market provider of hosted website, server, and web transaction performance measurement services, today announced the immediate availability of a new web load testing service. AlertSite’s load testing services help determine how well online applications scale under the stress of user demand.

The AlertSite Load Testing Service will be delivered in collaboration with Mentora, an IT services company specializing in performance testing. The companies will work with customers to understand their application and typical user workload, define the necessary testing scripts, run three distinct load simulations, and deliver a final assessment report detailing the results and recommendations. The entire service is delivered over a 10 business-day period allowing for intermediate tuning and adjustments.

“In keeping with AlertSite’s philosophy of helping our customers be successful, this is not a ‘do-it-yourself’ service,” said Ken Gross, AlertSite’s CEO. “There is a significant amount of expertise and methodology required to have confidence in the results produced from load testing. Mentora helps us deliver that expertise to our customers with a very customized offering designed to provide a consultative experience and affordable prices.”

Extended Stay America, Inc., is the fastest-growing company owned and operated hotel chain in U.S. history, and is the third largest owned and operated hotel company in the world. They looked to AlertSite to prepare their website for an expected boost in traffic as a result of a planned national TV campaign.

“Not only did we get more than expected, AlertSite’s load testing gave us the confidence we needed to be sure our website was ready for our marketing initiatives. The consultants were great to work with, and the interpretive report really delivered the information we needed to see where we should make our next improvements,” said Ira Greenfield, Director of IT Operations, Extended Stay America, Inc.

About AlertSite

Based in Boca Raton, Fla., AlertSite is an industry-leading provider of Internet performance measurement and management services. Designed to help customers ensure that their web presence is always available and delivering a high “quality of experience,” AlertSite’s monitoring plans are tailored to meet the needs of all companies large and small. AlertSite monitors websites, eCommerce applications, mail servers, DNS servers and other devices connected to the Internet. Customers include Honda UK, Goodwill, The AKC, Cracker Barrel and Purina Mills. For more information, please visit http://www.alertsite.com.

About Mentora Group, Inc.
Mentora is an IT services company, provides performance testing, functional testing, and software quality consulting for customer web-based applications and Oracle and PeopleSoft eBusiness suites. Their managed services group hosts customers’ web-based applications at AT&T’s Northern VA Internet data center.

Founded in 1994, with offices in Atlanta, Boston, and Washington DC, Mentora’s byline is Dependability for Business Critical Deployments. For more information, please visit http://www.mentora.com.

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