I’ve been working on a ping service comparable to Ping-o-Matic, with the goal of providing a much faster response time for users. I’m at the point where I need an initial batch of users to try it out and provide feedback before it goes completely public. If you are interested then drop me a note using my contact form and I’ll point you to the website.
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If the main difference in your system is just “being faster” I would suggest you work with the PoM project instead of against it. We are currently handling over 40 requests per second, have over 14 million blogs in the db, and a blacklist of hundreds of thousands of domains and IPs. We’re also working closely with upstream providers to stop spam, unfortunately many of the new services cropping up are just functioning as open relays for ping junk. Ping-O-Matic is also going to be much faster once we bring the partner mirrors online.
Great work, Joseph! The response time is excellent, and I can easily live with a few minutes of delay between posting and getting the services notified. (Beats the crap out of waiting 30-60 seconds after posting, waiting for interactive services to notify everybody while I sit watching the Firefox spinner…)
Do you mind if I put something on my site about this? (I will leave the service URL out of the post, so you can keep tabs on the testers.)
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