CSF future on DirectAdmin — Where do we stand 6 months after the shutdown?

[sparek]

If I had my druthers, I would prefer that a third party develop a CSF replacement that works with both DirectAdmin and cPanel (as well as panel-less hosting).

That was the nice thing about CSF is that the syntax was the same for cPanel and DirectAdmin (presumably other control panels that it worked with). The fear I have with a control panel backed CSF replacement is that it's only going to work for that control panel. DirectAdmin has no reason to insure their implementation of CSF works on cPanel servers. So then you wind up with a CSF for DirectAdmin and a CSF for cPanel.

The ONE thing I would encourage, for anyone that's forking off of CSF... call your product something else, don't reuse the CSF name. Because we're going to get to the point of "CSF over here isn't the same as CSF over there."

 

[johannes]

My hope on this matter is, that somebody of the csf forks people will modify CSF for nftables and put it out as open source. I guess latest then, DA stuff will jump on the new code.

 

[Richard G]

CSF is open source and must remain that way so I don't worry about that part. I did see some people forking CSF and working on it.
As much as I also would like some situation as to where CSF could be used like it was before, so for mutiple panels, I also would like the same security and stability.
There is not really a group of programmers picking up the project, and next to that both cPanel and DA created their own fork, and there is already some slight difference if I'm not mistaken. Not really something which changes basic functionality but still.

If somebody would take over then it should be trustworthy and expected to be stable for some years to come or indeed start a new project under a new name (indeed better).