CSF is being discontinued
ConfigServer has posted on their blog they are discontinuing their products (including CSF) on August 31, 2025
More info: https://blog.configserver.com/?p=4137
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Really sad news.
CSF has been a big help many times over the years, from initial security audits (its "Check Server Security" tool) to fighting basic D(DoS) attacks and just keeping a generally good eye on things with its email alerts and such.
Granted, I don't use it on any servers right now, but nevertheless, I have customers that I know use and rely on it for certain things.
And yes - it's not irreplaceable, but it did a great job - with the benefit of being free and open-source.
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Nightmare! I use it "across the board".
Open to suggestions for a free alternative, as it is easy/quick to use from the GUI and the command line ain't that shabby too.
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Sad. It was a good product.
oh wow, CSF was/is a pretty solid product, tons of options to fine tune what you exactly needed but it worked great, I wonder if they would opensource the code for it to be continued forward somehow?
on the other hand, I don't see any other solution which is free either which can fill this space, fail2ban does comes to mind, but not as complete as CSF was since it had an eye on the entire servers network front pretty much.
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It seems that APF+BFD/fail2ban are the prime candidates, though are they up to date? A search hasn't found anything with the CSF functionality, so far.
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Hmmm should I send an email?
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This is catastrophic. No decent free alternatives. And they cancel everything, not only csf. I applaud no bullshit news why they cancel, but that is a blow to community. At least they could open source those and donate to public domain.
Reading the FAQ section below I noticed at the very end (I seem to have missed this earlier),
Assuming they do this, it would be pretty good as the product itself is solid, can't really see any flaws at all.
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I had read the FAQ; I think that has been added later.
This could help, A LOT.
https://github.com/Aetherinox/csf-firewall
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CSF was helpful for me
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Has now changed to:
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waves
Looks like free scripts were released under open source licensing today https://github.com/waytotheweb/scripts.
I compared the CSF Firewall GPLv3 open source code (v15.00) to the last configserver.com released code (v14.24) and wrote a summary at https://github.com/centminmod/configserver-scripts/blob/main/README-gpl-csf.md.
how this for my first post here ^_^
Terrible try again
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They didn't release CXS
. Other scripts, except CSF is in horrible shape (code wise), directed towards cPanel.
Sad. Hope talented group will take this and elevate into next level. At least, CSF is saved.
So what is consesus here? Shotdown or saved from the brink of death?
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At least there's a possibility of continuing - hope that's not just wishful thinking.
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LOL
Too early to tell
Yeah time will tell but at least there's a chance. Surprised the news isn't as wide spread about this given it's impact