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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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Importance of comments and automatic spam protection.
Importance and necessity of comments on websites, blog or forum is already understood by everyone. That is so because they directly influence the traffic. Comments for searching engines imply that the website content is actively discussed. Many users value the utility of a product by comments to it. But there is one peculiarity – this…
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Comparative statistic of spam activity on 4 popular CMS
We have briefly analysed spam activity on 4 CMS powered platforms with CleanTalk service and got the following results: First place — WordPress, 99.46% of spam messages, 88 thousand queries in selection. Second place — DataLife Engine, 91.12% of spam queries (registrations + messages), 3 thousand queries in selection. Third place — phpBB3, 86.98% of spam queries (registrations +…
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Updated anti-spam phpBB MOD
Improvements in the new version of the anti-spam module for phpBB: A new user account will be sent to the manual activation of the forum administration with an alert by email, If no server availability automatic moderation, or suspend access to the service. Optimized PHP code in the base class and hook. Deleted spam protection in…
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Updated IP.Board anti-spam hook to version 1.1.2
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Anti-spam hook for Invision Power Board (IP.Board) updated to version 1.1.2, change log: Enhanced JavaScript test on the client. Removed unnecessary error screens. Improved diagnostics server errors – as they arise forum administrator will receive an email with a description of the error and request number CleanTalk. XML file with hook here cleantalk-ipboard-1.1.2.xml Traditionally we remind hook…