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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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Spam Statistics and Trends for a year
We have published Anti-Spam Statistics and trends for a year. Statistics include numbers of spam attacks for CMS, Sources of spam by countries. Average spam attacks per day and trends for each CMS. The amount of spam in POST queries. https://cleantalk.org/spam-stats
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New version of the Security Service by CleanTalk
As we informed CleanTalk launched its website security project. The service protects administrator control panel from brute-force attacks and records users’ actions. Since the 29th of November Security by CleanTalk has become the Cloud Service and now all main data will be available in The Service Dashboard. The cost of the service is $20 per…
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Blocking emails by a mask
Dear users! CleanTalk has expanded the functions of personal blacklists. We’ve added an ability to filter email addresses by a mask. Symbol asterisk “*” means any set of characters. Examples: name*@example.com (all e-mail addresses with any set of characters after “name” will be blocked). *aa44@example.com (all e-mail addresses with any set of characters before “aa44”…
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Blocking spam by nicknames
Dear users! We are pleased to expand opportunities of Stop Words function. Added an ability to use stop words to block users whose nicknames contain certain words. This will allow you to use the service to block users with obscene or containing advertising nicknames. How to use Stop-Word Feature: Go to your CleanTalk Control Panel. Choose…