In Joel’s article for Inc. entitled How Hard Could It Be?: The Unproven Path, he wrote:
…it turns out that Jeff and his programmers were so good that they built a site that could serve 80,000 visitors a day (roughly 755,000 page views)
How would I go about figuring out the maximum load my server(s) can handle?
Jason, Have you looked at the Load Test built in to Visual Studio 2008 Team System? Check out this video to see a demo.
Edit: Here’s another video that has better resolution.