IT Discussion in a Milist: Script PHP for Blocking IP Addresses

Greetings,

I want to ask, whether or not if we develop or use a simple web (e.g. Joomla, etc) then  we could setup some specific public IP addresses to not access our website?

If getting traced or ping-ed it seems to be normal.

If someone could help,  I greatly thank you.

regards

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Cloud Computing

In the last few years, cloud computing has become the hot button for IT vendors and IT executives. What is cloud computing all about? Cloud computing means obtaining IT capabilities (i.e., hardware, software, or services) from an outside vendor over a network, usually the Internet. “The cloud” is a metaphor for the Internet, so the “cloud computing” phrase means that IT capabilities of some sort are purchased from a vendor and delivered to the customer over the Internet. From the customer’s standpoint, the IT capabilities com from “the cloud” – the customer doesn’t care where the actual computing is taking place. “The cloud is a smart, complex, powerful computing system in the sky that people can just plug into,” according to Web browser pioneer Marc Andreessen.

The Golden Years: Sites Popular with the 60+ Age Group in South Africa

Loved Up: South East Asia’s Digital Landscape Awash With Couples

Over 49% of the region’s Internetpopulation is in a relationship

SINGAPORE,13 February 2012 - Effective Measure, the leading provider of digital media planning solutions in emerging markets, today released data reporting on the significance of the largemarket share of South East Asia’s (SEA) Internet audience who are in romantic relationships to Valentine’s Day. The data showed 49.2 percent of the overall SEA Internet audience are either married (41.4 percent) or in live-in relationships (7.7 percent) in the month of January and presented an opportunity for targeted online engagement over this celebrated season of love.

Site Ranking Report – Indonesia – Dec 2011

This month, we saw over 34 million unique browsers (UB) in Indonesia for December.
In  the  top  ten  best  performing  sites,  facebook.com  climbed  from  being  positioned No.2  in
November to No.1 in December with 11.8 million UB’s, a growth of 5.47% from November.
Local  news  site  vivanews.com UB’s  number  grew  almost  4.8% measuring  over  7.5 million
UB’s in December.
We present to you the top 100 best performing websites in Indonesia in this report.
Use your access  to Effective Measure  to get  the  latest data on online  traffic and your  target
audiences across the different website categories at login.effectivemeasure.com

Top 100 Websites – Indonesia – Dec 2011 

RANK  WEBSITES
1.   facebook.com
2.   yahoo.com
3.   blogspot.com
4.   youtube.com
5.   google.com
6.   wordpress.com
7.   VIVAnews.com
8.   KOMPAS.com
9.   kaskus.us
10. 4shared.com