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Ping-O-Scratch

Filed under: Asides | January 12th, 2006
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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. (16)

16 Responses

vamsi | January 12th, 2006 @ 6:51 pm

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?

Amit C | January 12th, 2006 @ 6:58 pm

If I may ask, which rrdtool wrapper was use to get the statistics?

Thanks
Amit

Matt | January 12th, 2006 @ 7:25 pm

The RRD module for Lighttpd.

Oskar Syahbana | January 12th, 2006 @ 7:48 pm

I never succeed on using Ping-o-mattic as my blog ping service. I prefer using pingoat instead.

frederic | January 13th, 2006 @ 3:39 am

Good luck Matt, and keep up the good work.

Computer Guru | January 13th, 2006 @ 3:46 am

Good work Matt.. Thanks for all your efforts to make the blogosphere a better place ;)

Jeff | January 13th, 2006 @ 1:46 pm

Yay for lighty!

If only it had svn-via-webdav it’d be perfect ;)

Alex | January 13th, 2006 @ 3:13 pm

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?

Cpt. Iglo | January 13th, 2006 @ 6:25 pm

Will Ping-o-matic be back?

Matt | January 13th, 2006 @ 8:36 pm

It’s back online already, the downtime was actually something different and unplanned.

Roy Schestowitz | January 15th, 2006 @ 12:20 am

It only seems to ping weblogs.com. I see that there are updates posted at >http://pingomatic.wordpress.com/>.

Kevin Burton | January 16th, 2006 @ 2:31 pm

Hey..

While you’re at it could you change my XMLRPC URL (which I sent you two emails about)…

Kevin

Matt | January 16th, 2006 @ 3:22 pm

Kevin, I sent you an email asking what the new URL is. I can’t find the one where you sent it.

Matt | January 17th, 2006 @ 11:58 pm

burton@newsmonster.org
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