Some months ago I sat down and spent some time thinking about Ping-o-Matic and what sort possibilities there are in that kind of service. I started putting some ideas down on paper and talked to Jim about it, we agreed it sounded interesting so I started writing up some code. Thus PINGQueue.com was born.
I’ve gone through a couple revisions of the code and database and I’m fairly happy with where things are at. There are still more features that I’d like to add, some for users and others behind the scenes, but for now I think it is at a good starting point. So go and try it out, especially if you are looking for possible Ping-o-Matic alternatives.
You can submit pings via an HTML form at http://www.pingqueue.com/ or use the XML-RPC function weblogUpdates.ping at http://www.pingqueue.com/rpc/. If you are using WordPress then you can configure it to automatically ping PINGQueue via Options -> Writing -> Update Services (at the bottom of the page) and put in the URL http://www.pingqueue.com/rpc/ in the textarea and click on the ‘Update Options’ button.
PINGQueue.com has its own blog (with RSS Feed) and a contact form if you’d like to ask questions.
So try it out and let me know what you think.
3 replies on “PINGQueue.com”
[…] PingQueue is Joseph’s recently-announced ping service. Details of this service are available via the links in this entry. But in a nutshell, the advantage of this service is that ping requests are queued up–this sounds like a disadvantage, but the response time for adding a request to the queue is much faster than synchronously pinging multiple services. […]
Hey dude,
I was checking my ping history. It seems like having the ping enqueue timestamp in the header of the “Ping Details” (example) page would be useful for checking the queue delay.
Jim
Good idea. Done.