It is amazing Ping-O-Matic has handled as much traffic as it has thus far, but it really wasn’t conceived with these levels even imagined. It hasn’t had a good update since it was doing 20-30 reqs/second. Time to rip it out and start from the ground up. I’ll blog about it again when the new system is ready.
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so, you mean you are taking the service down for now or it will continue and will be replaced when the new system is ready?
If I may ask, which rrdtool wrapper was use to get the statistics?
Thanks
Amit
The RRD module for Lighttpd.
I never succeed on using Ping-o-mattic as my blog ping service. I prefer using pingoat instead.
Good luck Matt, and keep up the good work.
Good work Matt.. Thanks for all your efforts to make the blogosphere a better place 😉
Yay for lighty!
If only it had svn-via-webdav it’d be perfect 😉
Since Ping-o-matic is the default ping recipient for all WP blogs, perhaps information about this including how to enter sites to ping directly should be added to the WordPress dev blog?
[…] Matt notifco que trabajaria en una nueva version del servicio por lo que se presume que es debido a eso no funcione. […]
Will Ping-o-matic be back?
[…] Ping-O-Matic, a great tool and arguably the most popular update ping service is currently down. Matt blogs about a complete revamp. Apparently their current system was accepting pings on just one box!. Technorati is helping them out. […]
It’s back online already, the downtime was actually something different and unplanned.
It only seems to ping weblogs.com. I see that there are updates posted at >http://pingomatic.wordpress.com/>.
Hey..
While you’re at it could you change my XMLRPC URL (which I sent you two emails about)…
Kevin
Kevin, I sent you an email asking what the new URL is. I can’t find the one where you sent it.
burton@newsmonster.org
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