Comparison of FTP server software packages: Difference between revisions

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|[[CrushFTP Server]]

|{{proprietary|[[trialware]]}}

|Mac OS XmacOS, Windows (all), Linux (all), *BSD, Solaris, IBM.

|[[FTP]], [[FTPS]], [[SSH File Transfer Protocol|SFTP]], [[Secure copy|SCP]], [[HTTP]], [[HTTPS]], [[WebDAV]](SSL), [[AS2]], [[AS3 (networking)|AS3]], Plugin API, [[Active Directory]] / [[LDAP]] authentication, [[RADIUS]] authentication, [[SQL]] authentication, [[SAML]] SSO Authentication, CrushBalance load balancer, Web UI administration, Groups, Layered Inheritance, Events / Alerts, Protocol Conversion (incoming FTP/FTPS/SFTP/HTTP(s) protocols converted to a back end FTP(ES)/SFTP/HTTP(s)/S3/WebDAV server.), [[Secure Shell|SSH Tunneling]], [[Tunneling protocol|HTTP(S) Tunneling]], CrushTask, client certificate authentication, ad-hoc file sharing, keywords search, [[Pretty Good Privacy|PGP]] in stream encryption / decryption, bandwidth acceleration (CrushTunnel), file revisions and synchronization, [[DMZ (computing)|DMZ]] front end server mode can also cluster with [[Load balancing (computing)|load balance]] (supports proxy protocol v1 and v2), [[DDOS]] protection, [[High Availability]] Virtual IP, data replication and session replication, Job scheduling and monitoring, user config via API, scriptable command line file transfer client. Supports cloud storage via [[Amazon S3|S3]], [[Microsoft Azure|Azure]], [Citrix] file storage, [[Hadoop]] and [[Google Drive]] for file data.

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|[[FileZilla Server]]

|{{open source|[[free software]]}}

|Windows, MacmacOS, OS XLinux

|[[FTP]], [[FTPS]], supports autoban, speedlimits, IP Filter, Groups, Shared folders, compression

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|[[CrushFTP Server]]

|{{no}}, [[proprietary software|proprietary]]

|Mac OS XmacOS, Windows, Linux, *BSD, Solaris, etc.

|[[FTP]], [[FTPS]], [[SSH File Transfer Protocol|SFTP]], [[Secure copy|SCP]], [[HTTP]], [[HTTPS]], [[WebDAV]] and WebDAV over SSL, [[AS2]], [[AS3 (networking)|AS3]], Plugin API, Windows [[Active Directory]] / [[LDAP]] authentication, [[SQL]] authentication, GUI remote administration, Events / Alerts, X.509 user auth for HTTPS/FTPS/FTPES, MD5 hash calculations on all file transfers, Protocol Conversion (incoming FTP/FTPS/SFTP/HTTP/HTTPS protocols converted to a back end FTP/SFTP server.), [[Secure Shell|SSH Tunneling]], [[Tunneling protocol|HTTP(S) Tunneling]], CrushTask, Headless (Web browser management, or you can edit XML files directly, or issue terminal commands to add users, manage groups, inheritance, permissions, query server statistics, etc.) Supports cloud storage via [[Amazon S3|S3]], [[Microsoft Azure|Azure]], [[Citrix]] file storage, [[Hadoop]] and [[Google Drive]] for file data. Support for CrushBalance load balancer, or others via proxy protocol v1 and v2.

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|[[glftpd|glFTPd]]

|{{no}}, [[proprietary software|proprietary]]

|Linux, BSD, Mac OS XmacOS

|Virtual users and groups, private paths, bandwidth throttling, upload/download ratio support, on the fly CRC calculating of files being uploaded, script support on almost all commands and operations, online user management, built-in statistics viewable using site commands, [[FTPS]] and ACL support. Supports [[File eXchange Protocol|FXP]].

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|[[ProFTPD]]

|{{yes}}, [[GNU General Public License|GPL]]

|Unix-like (Linux, BSD, Mac OS XmacOS, and more<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.proftpd.org/features.html |title=The ProFTPD Project: Features & Platforms |publisher=Proftpd.org |access-date=2018-04-22}}</ref>), Windows with [[Cygwin]]

|Feature rich and popular FTP daemon for Unix-like platforms. Many third party [[Graphical User Interface|Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs)]] available. SFTP can be supported via add-on module.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.proftpd.org/docs/contrib/mod_sftp.html |title=ProFTPD module mod_sftp |publisher=Proftpd.org |access-date=2018-04-22}}</ref>

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|[[Pure-FTPd]]

|{{yes}}, [[BSD License]]

|Linux, BSD, Mac OS XmacOS, and more

| Supports [[File eXchange Protocol|FXP]].

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|[[WU-FTPD]]

|{{no}}, [[proprietary software|proprietary]]

|Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS XmacOS and more

|Main website seems offline, but continues development in the newer CC series

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== Libraries ==

{|class="sortable wikitable"

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!Name

!Licence

!Language

!Platform

!Details

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|[[pyftpdlib]]

|{{open source|[[MIT License]]}}

|Python

|Platform independent

|A high-level portable library to easily write asynchronous [[FTP]] servers with [[Python (programming language)|Python]]. It is currently the most complete RFC-959 [[FTP]] server implementation available for Python.

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|{{No}}

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|macOS

|Mac OS X

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

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|{{yes}}

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|macOS

|Mac OS X

|{{yes}}

|{{yes}}

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== Notes ==

<References/>

== External links ==

* {{curlie|Computers/Software/Internet/Servers/FTP/}}

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