Yesterday while publishing a new entry into my blog I started getting PHP timeout scripts. At first I thought it was a plug-in I just installed for testing and removed it, yet publishing was still sluggish. I then remembered a new change I made. I had enabled a boatload of ping servers in wordpress. I went in and removed these ping servers and immediately my site publishing speeds increased back to normal.
So, if you have a large number of ping servers added recently and find your blog publishing is failing it’s very likely this is the problem. Fortunately, there’s a solution and it’s name is “WP-No Ping Wait“. Turns out I wasn’t the only one affected by this and a detailed write up about this issue can be found here: http://asymptomatic.net/2006/02/13/2260/why-posts-…
Additionally, GrabPERF plots the page load of ping-o-matic here: http://www.grabperf.org/homepage.php?page=scatter&…
Finally, here’s my list of ping servers, it’s no wonder my blog was timing out.
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
https://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFinance.woa/wa/pingPodcast
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/
http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
http://www.newsisfree.com/RPCCloud
http://www.mod-pubsub.org/ping.php
http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php
http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/
http://www.imblogs.net/ping/
http://www.holycowdude.com/rpc/ping/
http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://www.blogoon.net/ping/
http://www.blogoole.com/ping/
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://thingamablog.sourceforge.net/ping.php
http://signup.alerts.msn.com/alerts-PREP/submitPingExtended.doz
http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/xmlrpcping.aspx
http://rpc.wpkeys.com/
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.tailrank.com/feedburner/RPC2
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://rpc.newsgator.com/
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://rpc.britblog.com/
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/
http://pingqueue.com/rpc/
http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2
http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc/
http://ping.weblogs.se/
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://ping.blogg.de/
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://ping.amagle.com/
http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
http://coreblog.org/ping/
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
http://blogbot.dk/io/xml-rpc.php
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://bitacoras.net/ping
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://1470.net/api/ping
