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WP pages disappeared overnight

Discussion in 'Blogging' started by keblack, Jan 19, 2007.

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  1. #1
    Hi,

    Any idea why 7 of my categories at http://www.weight-loss-discovery.com disappeared overnight - many pages that I had posted vanished. I checked in WP and the category names are there, but 0 posts beside them. I posted many pages yesterday night, but somehow they were deleted. I know that I had to wait about 2 minutes per page post, probably because I have a long list of ping sites installed in WP that it is supposed to post to ... perhaps that is a bad idea.

    What Ping sites are worth it to install in WP ? I have the following in

    Options > Writing > Update Services box

    http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
    http://1470.net/api/ping
    http://api.feedster.com/ping
    http://api.feedster.com/ping.php
    http://api.moreover.com/ping
    http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
    http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
    http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
    http://bblog.com/ping.php
    http://bitacoras.net/ping
    http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
    http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
    http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
    http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
    http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
    http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
    http://blogupdate.org/ping/
    http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
    http://coreblog.org/ping/
    http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
    http://ping.amagle.com/
    http://ping.bitacoras.com
    http://ping.blo.gs/
    http://ping.blogg.de/
    http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
    http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/
    http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
    http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc
    http://ping.feedburner.com
    http://ping.myblog.jp
    http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
    http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
    http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
    http://ping.weblogs.se/
    http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc/
    http://pingqueue.com/rpc/
    http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/
    http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2
    http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
    http://rpc.britblog.com/
    http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
    http://rpc.newsgator.com/
    http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
    http://rpc.tailrank.com/feedburner/RPC2
    http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
    http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
    http://rpc.wpkeys.com/
    http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/xmlrpcping.aspx
    http://signup.alerts.msn.com/alerts-PREP/submitPingExtended.doz
    http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
    http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
    http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
    http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
    http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
    http://www.blogoole.com/ping/
    http://www.blogoon.net/ping/
    http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
    http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
    http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
    http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
    http://www.feedsky.com/api/RPC2
    http://www.holycowdude.com/rpc/ping/
    http://www.imblogs.net/ping/
    http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/
    http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php
    http://www.newsisfree.com/RPCCloud
    http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
    http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
    http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
    http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/
    http://xmlrpc.blogg.de
    http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/
    https://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFinance.woa/wa/pingPodcast
    http://www.packetmonster.net/xmlrpc.php

    Thank you.
     
    keblack, Jan 19, 2007 IP
  2. sarahk

    sarahk iTamer Staff

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    Some thoughts about your missing pages...

    It was late, you were tired, and they're on your other blog :)
    Your webhost had a problem and had to roll back to a backed up version of your site

    As for the pings, that's an impressive list (you've manually verified them all I hope, some let you ping but do nothing if you haven't registered) and it will cause a significant delay. Further problems will be caused when any one of those sites is down or abandoned.

    My recommendation then is to have a single ping on your own server that then triggers all of those to be pinged.
    Your best bet would be to have each in a database table with a status of 0.
    A cron job could then run every hour and ping any entry with 0.
    On completion it sets the flag to 1.
    When you post your script would change them all back to 0
     
    sarahk, Jan 19, 2007 IP
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    Thats what I was thinking too and the site is now down.

    I'll get use from your other tips. :cool:
     
    cormac, Jan 19, 2007 IP
  4. AhmedF

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    Sigh - people have the wrong idea about pinging.

    Eg you have BlogFlux and Pingomatic. All we are going to do is re-ping the sites you have already pinged.

    Either choose a mass pinger (like Blog Flux) or ping individually.
     
    AhmedF, Jan 20, 2007 IP
  5. keblack

    keblack Active Member

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    Thanks for the information. I deleted all of them except http://rpc.pingomatic.com/

    Is that enough or I'm guessing I should use the service you recommended ?

    Thanks.
     
    keblack, Jan 20, 2007 IP
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    Okay - just to be clear, your pinging does *not* affect your WP itself. There are a dozen reasons of what could have been happened - you could have been exploited, you could have been hacked, your host could have suffered a DB loss, etc etc.

    In regards to pinging - as I own BlogFlux.com my opinion is slanted. But BlogFluxcom, Pingomatic.com, or Pingoat.com should all server you just fine.
     
    AhmedF, Jan 20, 2007 IP
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