I use pingomatic with my wordpress blog because it was there and easy (apart from trawling through the list and manually submitting at the start) However I've noticed that the calls to http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ are failing and really slowing down my blog. Even calling their homepage takes forever. I appreciate that their site must be under huge pressure and it's free and all that but... Does anyone have a contact on the inside who can let us know what's happening?
I don't know what the problem is, but it's been going on for some time now. It's been so bad that I just removed pingomatic from my Wordpress installations. Now I just manually do a ping to www.pingoat.com once a day. I think it's faster.
I think ping-o-matic is run by Matt and the rest of the WordPress crew. I stopped pinging that thing a long time ago and just use a list of ping services to manually ping. I rarely have long hang times like I did with POM
Pingoat Pingoat Pingoat - that is the solution I gave up on ping-o-matic the first day I had my WP blog running (last summer) - and it looks like they STILL have not gotten it together. PS - use Pingoat