CIDRAM vs Byteplant

CIDRAM (Classless Inter-Domain Routing Access Manager) is a PHP script designed to protect websites by blocking requests originating from IP addresses regarded as being sources of undesirable traffic, including (but not limited to) traffic from non-human access endpoints, cloud services, spambots, scrapers, etc. It does this by calculating the possible CIDRs of the IP addresses supplied from inbound requests and then attempting to match these possible CIDRs against its signature files (these signature files contain lists of CIDRs of IP addresses regarded as being sources of undesirable traffic); If matches are found, the requests are blocked. Requirements PHP >= 7.2.0 PCRE Updating Note: CIDRAM does not interact in any way with your database, and stores its own configuration settings, customisations, and related materials as flatfiles within its own directory. If you’ve not changed any of the default configuration settings and if you’re not using any customisations for this plugin, updating normally via the plugins dashboard, without need for any additional steps, should be sufficient and shouldn’t cause any problems. However, if you’ve modified the configuration settings for CIDRAM, or if you’ve made any customisations, I would recommend making backups of all of these prior to updating, due to that updating will overwrite all settings and customisations (after updating, you can then restore your customisations from your backups). Alternatively, if you update via the CIDRAM front-end updates page, all settings and customisations should be preserved.

Real-Time Email Validation – Live Check This plugin uses the Byteplant Email-Validator API (https://www.byteplant.com/email-validator/) for a real-time live check to find out if an email address really exists or not. Supported Plugins / Compatible Forms The plugin integrates seamlessly with: Contact Form 7 Gravity Forms WPForms Ninja Forms Jetpack/Grunion WooCommerce WordPress registration forms WordPress comments and with any other form which uses the is_email() function (no changes required). The plugin can also be easily integrated into any 3rd party forms. Key Features The Email-Validator API real-time validation process includes a live check with all of the following tests: Syntax verification (IETF/RFC standard conformance) DNS validation, including MX record lookup Disposable email address (DEA) detection Misspelled domain detection to prevent Typosquatting Freemail address detection SMTP connection and availability checking Temporary unavailability detection Mailbox existence checking Catch-All testing Greylisting detection We do not send any email to the recipient address during the entire validation process. All processing is done on our servers, your IP addresses and domains are not affected in any way by the Email-Validator service – absolutely no blacklisting risk for your IPs and domains. Data Protection and Privacy Policy Please see the Frequently Asked Questions section. Getting Started The plugin requires an API Key. Please sign up for an account at https://www.byteplant.com/email-validator/free-trial-registration.html (no credit card required). The trial account comes with 1,000 free credits.