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The Google help page on submitting sitemaps says:
"Note: If you are providing a Sitemap index file, you only need to issue a single HTTP request that includes the location of the Sitemap index file; you don't need to issue individual requests for each Sitemap listed in the index."
Assuming that you're indeed providing correct lastmod timestamps in your ...
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This blog post looks like it has a lot of useful information for what you want:
http://www.mnot.net/blog/2011/05/18/http_benchmark_rules
It describes using autobench.
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Ask.com died as a search engine a long time ago. However, you can still submit a website's sitemap to it, if you wish. However, it will have to be done manually. If you'd like to submit your XML sitemap to Ask.com, simply type in the following in your browser's search bar: http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http%3A//www.MYSITE.com/sitemap.xml, where ...
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Am I correct in thinking that hosts with several "Packets lost" messages from different locations have less stable or slower connections
Totally wrong. Packet-loss may happen everywhere on path from you to hoster, you (with ping) can only say "some routes are worse for me, than another" (and slow, overloaded server may have bigger impact on overall ...
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