Simulate real users load on a webserver using Siege and Sproxy

We all know ApacheBench which is a really great tool for “brute-force” benchmarking, but what if we need to simulate n real users browsing a website in a plausible way?

Well, Siege and Sproxy serve this exact purpose!
Sproxy is a proxy that we can use to collect a list of urls to feed Siege with, let’s see how.

First, we obviously need to install all the software we will need.