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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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How to protect a Linux system: 10 tips
At the annual LinuxCon conference in 2015 the Creator of the GNU/Linux core Linus Torvalds has shared his opinion about the safety of the system. He stressed the need to mitigate the effect of the presence of certain bugs by competent protection order in violation of one component to the next layer overlaps the problem.…
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How to reduce a possibility of brute force attacks on WordPress
Until the moment when CleanTalk launched a security plugin, I didn’t pay much attention to the security of the admin account of WordPress and relied only on the complexity of the password. The most dangerous thing is when the bots use brute-force; pick up the password to the administrator account of the site. This can…
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A brief history of passwords from the P to the S: birth, death and the zombie apocalypse
The attack on the World Trade Center towers on 11 September 2001 claimed the lives of 658 employees of the financial company Cantor Fitzgerald. Its Director Howard Lutnick lost that day his brother, faced with an unprecedented problem. And it wasn’t even that the company’s servers, including backup, was also buried under the rubble. Information…
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API Method to Getting Country Code by IP Address.
We are pleased to announce the launch of a new API method. Now you can get a country code to identify the country by IP address by one API call. The API method returns a 2 letters country code (US, UK, CN and etc) or full country name (Germany, Canada) for an IP address. Limit…