Pingoat Sold : Paid Offsite API Usage Now
March 6th, 2006 | Filed under Blogging, Miscellaneous.Pingoat is an excellent one click multiple blog service pinging tool. I have been using it for quite some time to blog and ping.
Earlier Pingoat was up for sale, and now the new owners Tim Phelan and Vladimir have announced on the Goatlog the future plans for taking Pingoat to the next level.
1. We will have to stop all the free offsite API usage of the pingoat.com service.
2. We will keep the free onsite service of course. The pinging service will always be free at the website itself.
3. We will create a paid membership for the offline use of our service. This membership will have other services and bonuses. These will be announced later.
4. More than likely we will create an affiliate program where the members can actually make money.
They have ambitious plan and we wish them all the best for taking this wonderful service a step forward.
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Comments
Tim Phelan | 23/05/06 #
Hi
Just to update you on what is going on at Pingoat. We have ended the RPC service as we stated, although we did it almost 2 months after your post. We waited as long as we could but finally we really didn’t have any choice. Well actually, we could have gone down the road that pingomatic has, which is to keep adding servers as the service grows and each server gets overwhelmed and shuts down. You probably have noticed the recent pingomatic problems.
As pingomatic had their problems recently it caused traffic to swell dramatically on pingoat and then we finally decided it was time to stop the offsite service.
We probably won’t be starting a paid service for a while, if ever. We may bring back the RPC in some form in the future.
But for now we offer a better online service than pingomatic.
1. More sites to ping to. Twice as many.
2. Faster.
3. More reliable onsite service. After this change we should not have any problems with server overload.
Of course, if we can find a sponsor to pay for 2,3 or 4 more servers as pingomatic does, then the RPC may come back very quickly. Anybody out there interested?
It really is simple to use Pingoat from the site, and since it’s quicker and pings more sites, why not use it?
Regards,
Tim Phelan
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