Since at least 3 years it was apparent that ping services to ping blog directories and RSS feed directories are needed. Years ago existing ping services or ping sites such as the ones out of service below all have been too weak to cope with the ever increasing demand by the rapidly growing number of sites. Each quality site has at least one blog with an RSS feed plus eventually a few additional RSS feeds as needed. Thus professional sites each creating up to several articles per day or at least a few pages per week - that means millions of pings to be served to meet the industry need of global web publishers.

Attempts to motivate a highly qualified software developper to bring up such a ping service have repeatedly failed. Just as attempts to find a qualified and motivated developper for my blog software or access_log software have failed.

In modern times people are motivated to earn money - but few only are motivated and willing to actually work a honest share of efforts for the money earned.

As a result of ongoing global crisis reflecting our work moral, all - really all - major ping services went out of service during the past very few weeks. These below listed ping services, some of them working for several years, all ceased to work during this time of global crises. With ping services out of service, many of the RSS feed directories or blog directories also may soon go out of business for the simple reason as their RSS/blog directory data no longer are updated via pings! Hence one lazy software developper / site owner may cause a chain reaction and cause dozen of other family businesses out of existence within days, weeks or maximum a few months.

Ping servers out of service

pingoat.com

We're currently doing system maintenance. Come back later.

This error message appears now since several weeks. System maintenance for such as tiny site / service is a matter of minutes or hours at best, even an entire server move would take but a very few days maximum. It thus is safe to assume that this service is out of business for good.

pingomatic.com

Slow down cowboy! You're pinging us too fast.

This error message first started to occur years ago and now is default server reply when attempting to ping. With the last Blog article on pingomatic being posted on April 30, 2006, it is safe to assume that there no longer is any human care for this site or service.

autopinger.com

Hosting account deleted. Hence autopinger service death.

The end of all above 3 ping servers has been predictable since at least 2 years. Yet no one among the global SW developper has grabbed the opportunity to jump in and create a new, faster, more powerful or better service to create release for sometimes overloaded servers of a.m. ping sites.

Such a free ping service may only have a few thousand active users per day and may bring only a few hundred US$ of advertisement revenue per months if properly done. However for many in third world country such a sum of a few hundred US$ per months in addition to already existing revenues may make the difference between a happy life or a struggle for bare survival. As long as SW developers charge or receive up to US$ 65 per hour, it is apparent than most of them have no interest in any useful and helpful community services. Later when their 65$/hr are but memories in a global crisis it may be too late to catch up and start community services.

The very first chance to grab an opportunity usually is the only one and best opportunity for a better mutual future.

Love and Bliss

hans