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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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Changes in the logic for the spam_check API
We plan to launch API logic changes for the method “spam_check“. Parameter Appears will be modified. Parameter Appears — shows presence of record in the CleanTalk Blacklist Database. How it works right now — “appears”:1 returns in cases when spam activity was registered 3 and more times no matter when it happened even if this…
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Simple Ways to Implement All-around WordPress Security
WordPress security is a hot buzz in the industry these days, as the CMS is quite popular among the small businesses as well as enterprises. Hence, it is the most relevant thing to discuss about at present, without any shadow of doubt. Securing a WordPress site is called ‘hardening’ of WordPress. It is like building…
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Updates for API method spam_check
We have updated the data that is given out as a work result of the API of the spam_check method. Data is now sent for any records in the database. Previously, data sent if the records had the status BlackListed. Next parameters have been added: -spam_rate – a rating of spam activity from 0 to…
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‘WordPress Security by CleanTalk’ Review– Is it Potent Enough to Safeguard you?
WordPress is a very popular open source website creation tool. But this is not only a blogging platform, WordPress is an open source content management system used by millions of people worldwide. It is popular mainly because WordPress is very easy to use and easy to start with. Also, very good support from WordPress itself…
