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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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ARIN Wins Important Legal Case and Precedent Against Fraud
About 735,000 IP addresses were returned to the registry. This is the first time that IP addresses have been taken from fraudsters after a trial. On May 14, South Carolina U.S. Attorney Sherri Lydon filed criminal wire fraud charges against Amir Golestan, alleging he and his Charleston, S.C. based company Micfo LLC orchestrated an elaborate…
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Updating the API method “spam_check”
CleanTalk has updated the API method “spam_check” that allows checking spam activity of IP and email addresses via the CleanTalk database. What’s new: Displays the code of the country where the IP address belongs.This will help you know the geo-location of each IP address. The country code is displayed in a two-letter format in accordance…
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How to Set Up Notification for New Comments in WordPress
As everyone knows, WordPress sends a notification about a new comment to an article only to the author of the article. This is often inconvenient, as the site can be administered by a group of people and important messages may be lost, you need to enter the admin panel of the site to view them…
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Country Blocking. How to block access to your site from certain countries.
If you are the owner of a web site, then by default it is available for the entire planet. Many websites are simply not relevant to people in other countries. Thus, you should not expect significant traffic from them for granted. If you notice that there are requests to your site from a particular country…