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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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About the email “[CleanTalk] Access key used on multiple websites”
Recently, some of our users received an email with the subject: “[CleanTalk] Access key used on multiple websites” The message informed you that your CleanTalk Access key was detected on more than one website within a 24-hour period and recommended changing the key if the activity looked suspicious. The notification looked like this: Subject: [CleanTalk]…
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Our Client’s Review: BRNDTIME
We’re happy to share feedback from one of our valued clients — Christophe Thielens, founder of BRNDTIME. At CleanTalk, we truly appreciate hearing how our anti-spam solution helps agencies and businesses keep their websites clean, fast, and user-friendly. Reviews like this motivate our team to continue improving our technology and delivering invisible, reliable protection against…
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Great plugin & support
We continue to share stories of our clients and the new one is brought by Sabine from sabineboogaard.nl. To me this is the best security plugin. There are many options (like easily block IP-addresses and countries) and it’s very easy to monitor what’s happening on the website. I also love the automatic scans and reports. The…
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Spam Bot phil9982@bestaitools.my — How to Block It and Stop Website Attacks
A sophisticated spambot operating under the email address phil9982@bestaitools.my became one of the most active threats in late 2025. Since its discovery on November 10, 2025, this automated attacker has spammed 11,428 websites, with the last recorded activity being December 15, 2025. The CleanTalk anti-spam service currently blocks approximately 9,048 requests per day from this…
