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We have added two more locations to our <a target="_blank" href="https://www.site24x7.com/multi-location-web-site-monitoring.html”>global monitoring network. One server is from Sydney, Australia and the other is from Auckland, New Zealand. Below are
their IP address for your reference.

In case you plan on using these
two new monitoring servers, make sure you white list these IP addresses.
This is to ensure smooth and continuous monitoring of your websites and
servers from these two new locations.

If you have any questions, send us an email to support@site24x7.com.
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<img alt="Question" src="http://www.website-monitoring.eu/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/31118_110929-question.png” title=”Question” class=”alignright” width=”150″ height=”246″ />Have you ever asked yourself, “what if?”

Today, the global distribution of Internet users doesn’t really reflect how the population is distributed in the real world. Many countries (and whole regions) are either over- or underrepresented. Internet penetration varies wildly between countries.

So let’s do a thought experiment. What would the Internet look like if all countries were on an equal footing in terms of Internet penetration? We’ll take the United States as a baseline, with 78% of its population being Internet users, a level many industrialized countries either match or exceed.

Worldwide changes

If all countries had the same Internet penetration as the United States, this is what the Internet would look like:

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A few observations:

• The Internet as a whole would have 2.6x as many users as today.
• Asia would have 3.3x as many Internet users as today.
• Europe would have 1.3x as many Internet users as today.
• North America would pretty much be unchanged.
• Latin America would have 2.2x as many Internet users as today.
• The Middle East would have 2.4x as many Internet users as today.
• Oceania/Australia would have 1.3x as many Internet users as today.
• Africa would have 6.8x as many Internet users as today and would rise to become the second-largest region in the world after Asia.

That last bullet point brings up something interesting…

Power shifts

The hypothetical change we discussed would drastically shift the balance of the entire Internet.

• Asia would go from representing 44% of the Internet to 56%.
• Africa would go from 5.7% to 15%.
• Europe would go from 22.7% to 11.8%.
• Latin America would go from 10.3% to 8.6%.
• North America would go from 13% to 5%.
• The Middle East would go from 3.3% to 3.1%.
• Oceania/Australia would go from 1% to 0.5%.

The new top 10 countries

The change of balance in our hypothetical Internet would of course also change which countries constitute the top countries on the Internet.

What would happen is that countries with large populations but underdeveloped Internet presences would show up. Our hypothetical top 10 would be made up of the 10 most populous countries in the world, since all countries would have the same 78% Internet penetration as the United States.

Note that the “size boost” column refers to how much bigger the countries in the hypothetical top 10 would be.

Aside from the shuffling around, some countries in the top 10 would be new arrivals, and some would be pushed out of the top 10 altogether.

• New in the top 10: Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh.
• Pushed out of the top 10: Germany, United Kingdom, France.
• Size perspective: The top three countries in our hypothetical Internet would have more Internet users together than the entire Internet has today.

Is this a possible future?

This was a thought experiment in every sense of the word, based the single assumption that all countries would have the same Internet penetration.

Easier said than done, of course. This assumption comes with a full host of caveats, like the demands on technological development, education, infrastructure, general economy, etc. Countries where people are currently starving or living in abject poverty probably won’t make Internet access a high priority unless their living situation changes significantly for the better.

That said, the world is changing, and in many ways for the better (with some horrible exceptions, unfortunately).

Is this the future Internet we’re seeing?

It might not be too far from it, actually. We’ve shown you before how drastically the Internet changed between 2000 and 2010. Perhaps a similar retrospective in 2020 will show us something along the lines of this post.

This would hardly happen anytime soon, and such a drastic change as the one we have outlined here would probably take more than just a decade. However, it’s an interesting piece of information to keep in mind because it shows us how distorted the current Internet population is when compared to the real-world population.

Finally, since we used the United States as a baseline, how would it be affected by our hypothetical scenario? The change would be pretty dramatic. The United States would go from representing 11.7% of the Internet to 4.5%.

Data source: Current Internet user and population numbers from Internet World Stats.

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Change of IP address Budapest (Hungary)

Due to developments which have occured at our providers side, we are forced to change the IP address of our checkpoint in Budapest (Hungary). Please remove the IP address 79.120.203.200 and replace it with the new IP address:

Budapest (Hungary) 195.56.171.153

If you use our IP addresses in, for example, your Web Analytics account, we advise you to update this as soon as possible. A complete overview of all our monitoring stations can be found on our list of monitoring stations including their IP addresses.
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We have added a new monitoring station in Lisbon (Portugal) to improve our geographical coverage. The IP address of the new checkpoint is:

Lisbon (Portugal) 79.169.50.222

If you use our IP addresses in, for example, your Web Analytics account, we advise you to update this as soon as possible. A complete overview of all our monitoring stations can be found on our list of monitoring stations including their IP addresses.

The new monitoring station will automatically appear in your settings. If you previously selected all checkpoints, Uptrends will automatically add the new checkpoint to your settings. If you have created a manual selection, you can simply add the new checkpoint to your list of checkpoints.
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google have recently come up with a new feature called “<a title="Authorship Markup" href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/06/authorship-markup-and-web-search.html” target=”_blank”>Authorship markup” which, they say, will connect the author to the particular content in order to give it more credibility.

The Authorship markup encourages quality content by helping out its authors to rank better in the search results, according to Sagar Kamdar, google Product Manager. For this purpose, the markup connects the web content to a google Profile of its author and then – back to the particular web page. This way the content shows up in the search results, the author is identified, and the reader even sees a photo of the author displayed alongside, when an image is available. Content then looks more trustworthy and credible, and the website content is more protected.

google say Authorship markup is quite a new project, and is yet to be improved and simplified. Still, they claim to have made this feature “as easy to implement as possible”. Their first users of this markup have been The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNET and more. google also claim to have gone even a step further by adding this Authorship markup to everything hosted by youtube and Blogger. In the future, however, these two platforms will include this feature automatically.

While google created a feature to protect your website content, WebSitePulse perfected its monitoring service to help you keep an eye on any type of server and network device connected to the Internet, and measure the performance and availability of your websites and applications. Give it a try!

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The current big international social networks are <a href="http://www.<a href="http://www.website-monitoring.com/blog/2010/03/17/facebook-facts-and-figures-history-statistics/”>facebook.com/”><a href="http://www.website-monitoring.com/blog/2010/03/17/facebook-facts-and-figures-history-statistics/”>facebook, <a href="http://<a href="http://www.website-monitoring.com/blog/2010/05/04/twitter-facts-and-figures-history-statistics/”>twitter.com/”><a href="http://www.website-monitoring.com/blog/2010/05/04/twitter-facts-and-figures-history-statistics/”>twitter, LinkedIn and the newly formed <a href="https://plus.google.com/”>google+, and perhaps Tumblr, if you choose to look at it as a social network. However, go back to around 2004-2005 and these were either not around yet, or just taking their early baby steps. Back then the big ones were Friendster, LiveJournal and MySpace.

And we’re talking in past tense, because oh how the mighty have fallen. Web users are a fickle bunch, and there is probably no market as trend sensitive as social networking.

How bad is it? As you’ll see, they’re all caught in a downward spiral, but they might have peaked later in life than you think.

MySpace

<img alt="MySpace logo" src="http://www.website-monitoring.eu/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/1dbdd_110920-myspace-logo.png” title=”MySpace logo” class=”alignright” width=”150″ height=”102″ />Started in 2003, MySpace was the big dog before <a href="http://www.website-monitoring.com/blog/2010/03/17/facebook-facts-and-figures-history-statistics/”>facebook stole its thunder. It was a pretty strong player until quite recently, especially in the United States.

At its peak in 2007-2008, the then News Corp-owned MySpace was valued at $12 billion. In June this year, News Corp. sold MySpace for $35 million and a 5% stake in the new owner, Specific Media.

Worldwide interest in MySpace, 2004 – today:

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Worldwide site traffic to Myspace, 2009 – today:

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(There’s more information over at Wikipedia, if you want to read up on MySpace’s history.)

Friendster

<img alt="Friendster logo" src="http://www.website-monitoring.eu/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/5d479_110920-friendster-logo.png” title=”Friendster logo” class=”alignright” width=”150″ height=”34″ />Started in 2002, Friendster quickly became a huge success (it’s the site that inspired MySpace) and pretty much became a blueprint for the modern-day social network. It went from being popular everywhere, to mostly being used in Asia, especially SE Asia, which has remained its power base.

In May this year, Friendster pretty much committed harakiri – at least as a social network – and was completely redesigned to focus on social gaming.

Worldwide interest in Friendster, 2004 – today:

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Worldwide site traffic to Friendster, 2009 – today:

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(You can read more about Friendster’s history over at Wikipedia.)

LiveJournal

<img alt="Livejournal logo" src="http://www.website-monitoring.eu/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/d8759_110920-livejournal-logo.png” title=”Livejournal logo” class=”alignright” width=”150″ height=”104″ />Started in 1999, LiveJournal is a blogging service with strong social elements. In many ways it’s one of the social networking pioneers. To give you an idea of its status, early in the movie The Social Network, Mark Zuckerberg (as played by Jesse Eisenberg) is seen blogging on LiveJournal. The scene takes place in 2003.

In 2009, after having been bought by a Russian company (SUP) a couple of years earlier, the operation of LiveJournal was moved from the United States to Russia.

Worldwide interest in LiveJournal, 2004 – today:

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Worldwide site traffic to Livejournal, 2009 – today:

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(More about LiveJournal’s history over at Wikipedia.)

“Hold on, we’re not dead yet!”

The funny thing is, relatively speaking these social networks are still big. They still have millions of users. They haven’t died, they’ve just fallen from grace, most of their users having left for greener pastures.

It’s like one of those aging Hollywood movie stars of yesteryear, still good, but no longer cast in the best roles and no longer able to pull the crowds to the theaters.

“I used to be famous,” she said with a sigh. “I used to be a star.”

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<img alt="Pingdom" src="http://www.website-monitoring.eu/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/183c4_110525-pingdom-logo.png” title=”Pingdom” class=”alignright” width=”150″ height=”150″ />Our server infrastructure has a lot of work to do, it’s quite a busy bee. When you monitor the uptime and response time of as many websites and servers on the Internet as we do, and do it on a continuous basis, the numbers quickly add up. Just for fun, we thought we’d share some of these numbers with you.

First a couple of year-to-date numbers for the Pingdom monitoring network:

• Tests performed so far this year: 37 billion
• Alerts sent out so far this year (all alerts to all contacts): 31 million

The alert number is the sum of all alerts via email, SMS, <a href="http://www.website-monitoring.com/blog/2010/05/04/twitter-facts-and-figures-history-statistics/”>twitter, iPhone push notifications, etc.

And what about right now? Here is a snapshot of our current hourly workload…

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We are glad to announce the release of the following new features.

• The ability to monitor FTP/SFTP server availability and performance
• The ability to monitor the response of round-trip time of FTP/SFTP servers
• Comprehensive DNS Analysis tool which provides you with in-depth information of your DNS
• Three New monitoring Locations

New Feature: FTP/SFTP Server monitoring

The FTP/SFTP Server monitoring allows you to <a target="_blank" href="http://www.site24x7.com/ftp-monitoring.html”>monitor FTP server’s availability and performance. It also tracks the performance of FTP round-trip time (RTT).

• FTP Server monitoring: Monitors FTP Server host availability and performance
• FTP RTT monitoring: Monitors the upload and download response time of FTP service

FTP service is one of the most widely used network protocols by various businesses. It is the simplest way to share information with customers. Hence it is essential for businesses to ensure the availability of mission-critical data to customers at all times. Any undetected downtime can cause loss of revenue in hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Site24x7 lets you monitor your FTP server’s host availability and performance from across 30+ <a target="_blank" href="http://www.site24x7.com/multi-location-web-site-monitoring.html”>global monitoring locations. It instantly alerts you whenever the FTP port becomes unavailable, enabling you to take corrective measures to restore FTP access.

Site24x7 also enables you to monitor the upload and download response time of your FTP server. It uploads/downloads a test file into your server and monitors its response time (time taken by the test file to upload/download). It also works for secure FTP servers (SFTP).

Site24x7 automatically alerts you when,

DNS Analysis Tool:

We have improved our DNS Lookup tool which brings you in-depth details of your DNS in a single snapshot. It gathers the IP address, TTL (Time to Live) and response times of 

• SOA records
• MX records
• Reverse and Forward Lookup
• Name Server Performance

along with its current status. You can use this tool to run ad hoc tests of your DNS.

New monitoring Locations:

We have now introduced three new monitoring servers – one each in India, Turkey and Israel. The IP address of these three servers is given below for your reference. If you plan on using them, make sure that they are white listed.

Istanbul, Turkey:

• 46.235.8.142
• 46.235.8.143

Tel Aviv, Israel:

• 91.228.126.149

Mumbai, India:

• 180.149.241.212

You might have also noticed that we have come up with a new design for our website. We have simplified our tab layout with bare essentials and made it easier to access our key website monitoring features. So go ahead and sign up for a free trial and try out our new features. If you have any comments regarding our new features, feel free to share it in our comment section.
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Released: September 21, 2011
ManageEngine, makers of the globally renowned suite of cost-effective network, systems, applications and security management software solutions, today announced its 2011 Fall user conferences.
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