Finally, a nightmare coming true. As you might have noticed, the whole server was down for hours today. The CPU load was running high like anything. I investigated, only to find that the server was being hit by DDos attacks.

You might find the server down during this period. Please bear with me.
Thank you.

Pingoat's new spam filters have been blacklisting a lot of innocent blogs lately, along with splogs. If you find your legit blog blacklisted, please email with details to get the issue resolved immediately.

Sorry for the inconvenience !

This week, the blogosphere witnessed a 'splog boom'. Hundreds of thousands of splogs were created on the one and only 'blogspot.com' (Google's) and they were flooding Ping services like hell. Fortunately for Pingoat, it didnt create much of a problem, and guess what, infact it turned out to be a good supper for Splogspot.com ; The last week, the splogspot's DB actually grew four times its original size.

And yeah, I am not at all Surprised by this Splog boom on Blogger. Infact, I was expecting this and I knew sooner or later splogs would infest Blogger. I think I've mentioned it already in one of my posts, I had sent an email to Blogger the second week after Pingoat was launched. It was an email compsed of a bit (rudeness+a lot of frustruation+some anger) asking Google to take some action on the increasing spam on Blogger. But naturally, they never responded to my mail :P But in a couple weeks, they added the Flagging functionality (which I say, is pretty useless).

Funny
All those hungry,drooling wolves (SPLOGS) coming to feed on the fleshy Pingoat is actually being caged and getting a 'death sentence' for life on Pingoat. Oh yeah, Pingoat is acting as the bait+trap+cage

A lot of people have been complaining that the "Recent pings" page isn't working properly. So I've open a "Recently updated blogs" page - http://recent.pingoat.com . This page shows 500 of the last updated blogs (An xml feed is available)

When compared to the "Recently updated splogs" (http://splogspot.com/recent), this list updates very slow!

Ok, blogs pinging via Pingoat have started appearing on Technorati. It seems Technorati's fixed the problem on their side.

A 'Recently updated Splog' list updated every now and then
http://splogspot.com/recent


Miscellanious
Photoblog.be partners with Pingoat to offer pinging service to their premium users
http://www.photoblog.be/index.php?action=partners

erssbuilder.com has teamed up with Pingoat to offer pinging service to small/mid-size businesses

It seems Technorati isnt processing pings from Pingoat.com for some reason. The rpc server returns a success message, but I dont see content being spidered by Technorati. I had sent a mail earlier explaining the problem, but never got a reply. Anyway, let me try mailing them again and then we'll see what is the real cause.