When PingOMatic putters, sputters and times out - try Pingoat. It pings around 54 services - many more than Pingo and is fast as lighting! I get frustrated when I slave over my keyboard to get a quick blog out 1st thing in the AM and Pingomatic just putters because everyone is using it and it overloads - don't you? I was using ping.ws when Pingo bogged down but after trying this new one I say
Pingoat - Rocks and Gets My 5 Star Rating! ;-)
http://www.pingoat.com
While you are over there, check out the all new Pingoat Google sitemap generator. It says you can create Google sitemaps for your site with one click. Pingoat can even upload the sitemap to your webserver automatically and then ping google. I was putting off trying to figure out how to do this until my new site is finished, because it sounded complicated. With Pingoat it sounds easy.