What to use instead of pingomatic

[drmike]

I noted a few days ago that pingomatic appears to be dead or at the very least massively broken yet again.  I know in the wp.com forums that it's suggest that pingoat be used as an alternative but they don't have any method of automating pinging.

Any other services one can use?

[Luke]

It's probably getting too much traffic, and can't handle it. It's been slow as shit for a long time, at the very least.

There has to be something else out there, but I dunno what off the top of my head.

[Andrea_R]

I'm havign a brain fart over it too. At one point I know I knew this.

[drmike]

Seems to be working this morning though.  My personal blog now being listed again.  Two weeks behind but it's in there.

[Andrea_R]

"Servers donated by Automattic"

I did not know this.

[Luke]

"Now" she gets it... lol

To me, from an "end user" point of view, it would "appear" that there isn't enough "horsepower" to keep up with demand. I could be wrong, but that is what it gives the appearance of.

Like it gets so many requests, and then other start getting dropped and such.

I guess the question would be, what services need pinged, and would it be more feasible to just ping those directly.

I would think that on a relatively busy site, it might not be a "decent" option, but maybe it would be.

[drmike]

"Servers donated by Automattic"

Yup, been that way for quite sometime.  I believe (and feel free to correct me if I'm wrong) that the creator was overloaded on server load and bandwidth.

I think Automattic has bascially taken it over now.  Last time I checked, all the blog posts over there were Matt.

[Luke]

Yep, it's been that way for a while for sure.

But, something is going goofy with it, causing it to become unreliable as a pinging service more and more frequently.

Think about how many wp blogs (including mu-based ones) are out there, and "imagine" how many requests per second are showing up over there.