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How to Reduce Server Load by Simply Filtering Bad Traffic

When a website starts slowing down, many teams immediately think about scaling infrastructure: adding CPU, RAM, more servers, or optimizing the database. In reality, a significant part of server load is often caused not by real users, but by automated traffic — bots, scrapers, vulnerability scanners, spam robots, and aggressive crawlers. These requests may continuously
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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…
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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…