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Update: Anti-Spam Service Restored After Temporary Disruption
We experienced a service disruption in our Anti-Spam service, detected on September 9, 2026, at 16:00 (UTC+0). The issue was caused by the bot-detector script. To resolve the problem, the script was temporarily disabled. What you may have noticed: The issue has been fully resolved. The disruption lasted approximately 21 hours, and the service is…
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Reducing Disk Load in High-Traffic PHP Applications: Switching from SQLite to Redis for Anti-Crawler Storage
Automated crawlers and scraping bots are a growing problem for modern websites. While search engine bots are useful, many other crawlers generate excessive traffic, scrape content, or overload servers. To help website owners control this type of traffic, we recently released the Anti-Crawler PHP Library by CleanTalk, an open-source tool designed to detect and limit…
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How Much Server Resources Spam Bots Waste
When you look at your hosting invoice, you see CPU, RAM, disk and traffic.What you don’t see is the hidden line: How much of this is spent on spam bots instead of real users. Today a big part of web traffic is no longer human. Bad bots: For your server, each of these bots looks…
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GiveWP Spam Protection guide in 2026. Stop spam donations!
CleanTalk has added spam protection for GiveWP using direct form integration. This makes it a good opportunity to explore how to protect GiveWP against spam submissions using both built-in anti-spam tools integrated into the plugin core and third-party solutions. We will start with CleanTalk and then move on to Akismet, Google reCAPTCHA, Cloudflare Turnstile, honeypot…
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WPForms Spam Protection in 2026
How to stop spam in WPForms: layer the built-in anti-spam token, CleanTalk’s invisible cloud filter and optional CAPTCHA, and pick the right setup for your site.
