66,639 pings on Ping-O-Matic yesterday, let’s see if we can beat that today. 🙂 I rewrote the pinger deamon in Python, because the old PHP one was crashing the system on a regular basis. The new one is amazingly light, and was ridiculously easy to write. So now Ping-O-Matic is powered by PHP, Python, Perl, and caffeine. Right tool for the right job.
It’s looking like we’re going to beat that handily today. It’s only 2:40pm CDT, and we’re already over 61,000. And the last thousand of those were just in the last few minutes!