Error Message - CURL error: Operation timed out

If you’re receiving emails with error messages that read, “CURL error: Operation timed out…” despite the fact that AMA has published a post on your blog, then log in to the WordPress admin panel of your blog, and please check the following:

Go to Options/Settings, Writing, and look at the list of ping services in the “Update Services” text box.

If you have a long list of ping services there, then that’s probably the reason why you’re getting the error messages.

Pinging all those services is taking so long that the AMA software times out while waiting for your blog to respond back to say that the post was successfully published.

Please remove some of the ping services until you don’t get the error message. You really only need http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ in the list, and that one alone won’t slow down publishing on your site.

The AMA system cannot wait indefinitely for your blog to respond, otherwise we would never be able to get through all the publishing that the system must do.

If removing the ping services does not solve the issue, then check if any plugins are slowing down the publishing process.

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15 Responses to “Error Message - CURL error: Operation timed out”

  1. joe young Says:
    August 29th, 2008 at 9:48 am

    Thanks for the notification on the timeing out problem. I removed all ping services listed on this site,

    thanks
    joe young

  2. Don MacKay Says:
    September 11th, 2008 at 9:52 am

    I followed the process outlined in this set of instructions. I only have one ping service listed, pingomatic. Is there something else that could be causing the problem?

  3. Dave Says:
    September 12th, 2008 at 8:14 pm

    G’day all - from Australia

    Well you learn something new every day…

    I have over 40 blogs - and now I’m learning this trick?

    Thanks guys - great job.

  4. AMA Staff Says:
    September 18th, 2008 at 3:49 pm

    Don, there could be a plugin that’s also slowing down the publishing process.

  5. Jeanette Says:
    September 21st, 2008 at 7:12 pm

    Not sure what the problem is. Even though I’m getting this message, the article is posted faster than I can blink.

    I’m using 100% pure install from PLR Pro wordpress installer with only pingomatic. So if there is a plugin slowing things down, it’s included in ALL of the PLR pro-installed blogs.

    Jeanette

  6. Martin Says:
    September 22nd, 2008 at 9:11 am

    Thanks for the heads up, guys.

    Just made the correction as instructed. Only messaging Pingomatic now. Really appreciate the work you’re doing!

    Martin

  7. Dave Says:
    September 22nd, 2008 at 7:12 pm

    G’day from Australia

    I am still getting these warnings even though I am only using pingomatic?

    Is there a list of suspect plugins which may be causing this - although I have noticed my Hosting Server seems to be running a little slow lately.

    Anyone?

  8. TK Says:
    September 24th, 2008 at 3:45 pm

    I am also receiving these warnings and I have completely removed the http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ from the Update Services box.

    Any other ideas?

    Thanks you for your time and for such great service!

  9. skeafolk Says:
    September 27th, 2008 at 5:49 am

    Have removed the big no. of pings, hope that helps.

  10. Search Engine Expert Says:
    October 4th, 2008 at 7:48 pm

    I have also received this error message from some of my blog. I think the problem could be from the web hosting temporary down.

  11. Ken Says:
    October 7th, 2008 at 2:47 pm

    I only have pingomatic in the list and currently no plugins activated so this is a bit of a mystery to me

  12. Terry Says:
    October 21st, 2008 at 1:10 pm

    I too only have pingomatic.

  13. Ron Says:
    November 27th, 2008 at 7:58 am

    I removed the other services , hope this helps.
    What I don’t understand though is why it has worked great for a couple of months … I have made no changes , oh well .

  14. Richard Says:
    December 11th, 2008 at 2:33 pm

    pingomatic and askimet. Period. Perhaps our hosting companies have made changes.

  15. Charles Says:
    December 27th, 2008 at 6:16 pm

    Thanks guys. I deleted the other ping services in the list. Should be all set now. Thanks again.

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