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I will have a few thousand customers going to be on my website purchasing all at once (about 4K in a few minutes). Last 3 times I had this we had issues with bugs or server. I believe we've handled the server issues, we use Rackspace and scaled up more servers last 2 times & didn't see any issues with servers. But we had a few bugs each time that caused major issues. I've done testing myself and had 3 others review the site and I've corrected those issues. But really the problem is that we don't discover these bugs until we are hit with this much traffic all at once. I've done load testing using a third party site but that doesn't really show us bugs as it's not real users utilizing the site & preforming functions they would normally do. We also don't have much of any money to throw at this. FYI, with our web app/site our customers send their customers to purchase goods from our site, which charges them a fee based off the number in line they are to come to the site. This "number in line" model is what causes most of the complexity and problem. But we can't change that as it's what our customer's want.

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Andrii Dzynia answered

The best thing to do is to deep into test automation and automate at least basic scenarios using Selenium/WebDriver tool. But thinking long term you have to invest into making your application testable on all applications layers not just UI. In case you want to check how your application works under high load conditions try to use jMeter tool. In case you need much more details, clarifications or guidance just drop me a call request.

P.S. In case you are not ready yet to invest into test automation then hire manual testers on oDesk or uTest or similar freelancers website.