I want a feature to temporarly block my website from accessing?

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Published on 2010-04-16T06:44:34Z Indexed on 2010/04/16 6:53 UTC
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Hi from time to time , i want to shutdown my site for maintenance ...

How could i do this? I've seen a option in phpbb to block the site by admin and then unblock them..

Is there any apis for this or tell me a method of how to do this?

I'm using php for my website..

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