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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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Anti-Spam Filter for IP Networks
Dear customers! CleanTalk has expanded the functions of personal blacklists. We’ve just added a support in your private blacklists to block separate IP networks. This will allow you to use the service to block IP networks that use spammers. Very often spammers buy servers from hosting companies or virtual servers and use them to send a spam.…
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Additional factors for estimating spam activity of IP/Email addresses in Anti-Spam/Anti-Fraud API
Cloud Anti-Spam by CleanTalk in the process collects data on spam activity of IP/Email addresses. On the basis of these data, a database of spam IP/email is formed. CleanTalk provides several API methods for working with the data we have. We have recently added new parameters to the spam activity test method and launched two new…
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Auto-Update for CleanTalk Security Plugin
We recently launched an auto-update for the anti-spam plugin. The experience was positive and we implemented auto-update for the security plugin as well. For the convenience of service management, the auto-update option was implemented in the Service Control Panel. CleanTalk Dashboard allows you to select several websites and update the plugin at once on all sites one…
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Automating CleanTalk Anti-Spam Updates for WordPress
If you serve a couple of sites, then updating the plugins does not cause any difficulties. Difficulties appear if you serve a few dozen, or even hundreds of sites. CleanTalk Anti-spam requires frequent updates (we have to release a new version every 1-2 weeks), there are many reasons for this. WordPress, as a designer, has…
