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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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The accident at night Aug 9, 2013
At night on 09.08.2013 from 19:30 until 02:30 (GMT) was not available database of IP blacklist, Email, domain addresses. As a result of the specified time the efficiency of spam filtering was below the multiyear average. The most heavily accident affected users with modules phpBB3 version 3.5.10 and below, along with the WordPress 1.4.4 and…
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Policy changes for spam filtering
Hello! In this week we have updated the automatically moderation servers. In the new version of the server software made 2 important changes. Offtopic tests Firstly, disabled offtopics filtering for message not containing spam. Let me remind you that these signs are – finding author in black lists, offline, JavaScript, suspiciously little time spent on…
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Updated Anti-Spam plugin CleanTalk for WordPress
In the new version of anti-spam plugin for WordPress made the following changes: fixed bug with displaying PHP warning for sites with PHP version 5.4. fixed bug with checking comments Administrators, Authors and Editors of this blog. plugin settings «Filter messages containing stop-words», «Language system messages» removed from the control menu plugin. These settings are…
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PHP Class protect the site from spam
Not so long ago we updated the PHP class protection against spam sites, which may well be used to protect any PHP web-site. Of the most interesting changes: protection of the site without Captcha; automatically connect to the fastest server in a pool of servers; detailed examples of the use of the class. Download the…