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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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New CleanTalk Web Service. Site Performance Monitoring
Hello, We are planning to launch a new service and would like to hear your opinion.The service is called Site Performance Monitoring. It will allow you to control: Available website pages, HTTP / HTTPS response code. Page load time. Ping -% loss, average delay. JavaScript page errors. If you use monitoring you will immediately receive…
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Joomla 3.x Support. Important Information
In connection with the Joomla 4 release and the development of the anti-spam plugin for the new version of Joomla, you need to reinstall the anti-spam plugin for Joomla 3.x.You have to go to the control panel of the CleanTalk plugin and delete it:https://cleantalk.org/help/update-joomla34 Next, install the new version of the anti-spam plugin by CleanTalk.…
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How to monitor, control the activity of requests
One of the unique features of CleanTalk Anti-Spam is the logging of all requests. Unlike other anti-spam solutions, where forbidden requests just disappear and you don’t even know about them, you have the opportunity to view and analyze data, both on forbidden and allowed queries. This allows you to save data, even if they were…
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How to Protect Website Search from Spambots
We have received several requests about protecting website pages of search results from spambots. At a glance the solution is quite simple — remove the search results page in “robots.txt”, example: User-agent: * Disallow: /search But further analysis showed that it won’t be a 100% solution and there are many more problems which couldn’t be…