Way to the Web Ltd and Configserver.com will be closing down permanently!

Hello, anyone notice this yet "Way to the Web Ltd and Configserver.com will be closing down permanently on 31 August 2025." As we are using CSF as firewall & CXS as antivirus, what will be our next choice? I think we need support of imunifyAV, AV+, 360 & cPGuard as well. What are you thinking? More details here: https://configserver.com/announcement/

Well, that came outta nowhere. But I do believe that just as nature abhors a vaccuum, so too does open source software. Some project will step in an fill in the gap. Maybe cPanel could donate some of their $$$ in monthly fees to support new infrastructure for an open version.

It's already forked on GitHub:
https://github.com/Aetherinox/csf-firewall?tab=readme-ov-file

It did come out of nowhere.

Every cPanel and CWP, to mention a few use it.

csf is NOT anti-virus, that is handled by ClamAV.
So there is no need for any other anti-virus like imunifyAV, etc.

csf also hasn't been 'forked', that is an add-on to csf.

There is FirewallD and fail2ban as options.

It did come out of nowhere.

Every cPanel and CWP, to mention a few use it.

csf is NOT anti-virus, that is handled by ClamAV.
So there is no need for any other anti-virus like imunifyAV, etc.

csf also hasn't been 'forked', that is an add-on to csf.

There is FirewallD and fail2ban as options.

but with our CWP, CSF is coming as default. So, it's time to changed it to FirewallD+Fail2ban with a GUI. Also, we were using CXS as antivirus. Because ClamAV does not have better option to cleanup infected file. From admin panel we can only scan for infected file but there have no option to cleanup or remove the files. So, need a solution of it as well.

I doubt it will be changed any time soon.
CSF will still work after August 31st, just no more updates.
But there are rumors it might be released as open source on Github.

ClamAV works fine fine the CLI.

So, it's time to changed it to FirewallD+Fail2ban with a GUI. Also, we were using CXS as antivirus. Because ClamAV does not have better option to cleanup infected file. From admin panel we can only scan for infected file but there have no option to cleanup or remove the files. So, need a solution of it as well.

In addition to CWP, you could look at Cockpit and Webmin to add-on to your servers to have GUI interfaces for firewalls, fail2ban, and ClamAV. I have all 3 installed on my servers. (Belt, suspenders, and helium balloons hold up my pants...)

If CSF is released as GPLv3 before their imminent closure, Configserver's developers indicated it will be posted to their GitHub repository:
https://github.com/waytotheweb/scripts
(currently just uninstall scripts for their products!)