Comments on: Ping server survey, November 2006 http://www.sweeting.org/mark/blog/2006/12/11/ping-server-survey-november-2006 The world according to marky moo Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:08:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Mark http://www.sweeting.org/mark/blog/2006/12/11/ping-server-survey-november-2006#comment-26826 Mark Thu, 21 Dec 2006 10:57:51 +0000 http://www.sweeting.org/mark/blog/2006/12/11/ping-server-survey-november-2006#comment-26826 That's a good idea Ahmed, and is what we've done with BritBlog. We hold a list of all valid URLs in memory which makes validating incoming pings very quick and efficient. I'm amazed by how quickly our RPC URI got out to the spammers... That’s a good idea Ahmed, and is what we’ve done with BritBlog. We hold a list of all valid URLs in memory which makes validating incoming pings very quick and efficient. I’m amazed by how quickly our RPC URI got out to the spammers…

]]> By: AhmedF http://www.sweeting.org/mark/blog/2006/12/11/ping-server-survey-november-2006#comment-26780 AhmedF Thu, 21 Dec 2006 03:42:18 +0000 http://www.sweeting.org/mark/blog/2006/12/11/ping-server-survey-november-2006#comment-26780 We are actually going to change it so that the only way to ping through us is to have your blog approved on our site. There is so much spam coming that it is almost like a mini-DDoS. We are actually going to change it so that the only way to ping through us is to have your blog approved on our site.

There is so much spam coming that it is almost like a mini-DDoS.

]]> By: AhmedF http://www.sweeting.org/mark/blog/2006/12/11/ping-server-survey-november-2006#comment-26746 AhmedF Wed, 20 Dec 2006 21:20:48 +0000 http://www.sweeting.org/mark/blog/2006/12/11/ping-server-survey-november-2006#comment-26746 Ah just XML-RPC. Sorry, didn't know its status. Ah just XML-RPC. Sorry, didn’t know its status.

]]> By: Mark http://www.sweeting.org/mark/blog/2006/12/11/ping-server-survey-november-2006#comment-26742 Mark Wed, 20 Dec 2006 20:44:43 +0000 http://www.sweeting.org/mark/blog/2006/12/11/ping-server-survey-november-2006#comment-26742 Hey Ahmed, good luck with the rewrite -- hope it goes well! From what I can tell, the Pingoat XML-RPC surver is down at the moment. Do you know differently? Hey Ahmed, good luck with the rewrite — hope it goes well!

From what I can tell, the Pingoat XML-RPC surver is down at the moment. Do you know differently?

]]> By: AhmedF http://www.sweeting.org/mark/blog/2006/12/11/ping-server-survey-november-2006#comment-26730 AhmedF Wed, 20 Dec 2006 18:20:16 +0000 http://www.sweeting.org/mark/blog/2006/12/11/ping-server-survey-november-2006#comment-26730 About to send out an email to all our members - we are doing a major re-write, including one of Pinger. It should perform (much) better around middle of January :) You should add Pingoat to that list - it is more popular than our service or AP. About to send out an email to all our members - we are doing a major re-write, including one of Pinger. It should perform (much) better around middle of January :)

You should add Pingoat to that list - it is more popular than our service or AP.

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