Since the middle of 2024, trouble has been brewing for the supporters of the ClearOS firewal and gateway community. The race had been on to create a community version or find an alternative since the ClearOS Company had effectively end support for and work on any of the ClearOS versions in the Spring of 2024.

Webcliq had been supplying and installing ClearOS as its standard security offering for over 20 years starting in 2004 with the predecessor of ClearOS called ClarkConnect. Standard modem router firewalls supplied by the internet service provider had never been compliant with data protection regulations in Europe and even some of the most expensive Modem Routers such, costing hundreds of pounds, as the Draytek Vigor range, were not deemed completely satisfactory because they frequently fail under a SynFlood or DDOS attack in the open condition, allowing all traffic to pass without hindrance. The ClearOS system would never permit that to happen.