Maxim Alex

Maxim Alex

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Building a CMS-Level Firewall: Why Application Context Matters

I develop websites on ProcessWire CMS, and I use Plausible Analytics for privacy-focused traffic monitoring. One day I noticed something odd: huge traffic spikes from Singapore. Hundreds of "visitors" daily, but zero actual engagement. Fake browsers hitting product pages, crawling everything, driving up server load. My first thought was simple: "wouldn't it be cool to just block Singapore...