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== Graphical ==

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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.

|-

|[[FileZilla Server]]

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

|Windows, onlymacOS, Linux

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

|-

|[[Microsoft]] [[Internet Information Services]]

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|-

|[[War FTP Daemon]]

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

|Windows 9X/2000/XP/2003

|One of the original [[FTP]] servers made for the windows platform and still available.

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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.<ref>[http://www.crushftp.com/crush8wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=API] {{dead link|date=March 2019}}</ref>) 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.

|-

|[[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= |accessdate=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= |accessdate=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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| [[FTP]], [[FTPS]], [[FTPES]]. Supports X.509 client cert auth. deny / enable lists for user access. Logging data can be compatible with wu-ftpd format. [[vsftpd]] is default FTP daemon in [[Ubuntu (operating system)|Ubuntu]], [[CentOS]], [[Fedora (operating system)|Fedora]], [[Slackware]] (along with ProFTPD), [[NimbleX]] and [[RHEL]]. Others like [[Debian]] require an additional installation. GPLv2 license with exception for linking with OpenSSL.

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|[[wuWU-ftpdFTPD]]

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

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

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

|}

== Libraries ==

{|class="sortable wikitable"

|-

!Name

!Licence

!Language

!Platform

!Details

|-

|[[pyftpdlib]]

|[[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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|-

! scope="col" colspan="2" |

! scope="col" |

! scope="col" |[[Cerberus FTP Server|Cerberus]]

! scope="col" |[[Complete FTP Server|Complete]]

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! scope="col" |[[Sysax Multi Server|Multi Server]]

|-

! scope="row" colspan="2" | License type

|License type

|[[proprietary software|proprietary]]

|[[proprietary software|proprietary]]

|[[proprietary software|proprietary]]

|{{open source | [[FLOSS]]/[[GPL2]]}}

|[[proprietary software|proprietary]]

|[[proprietary software|proprietary]]

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|{{no}}

|{{yes}}

|{{noyes}}

|{{no}}

|{{No}}

|-

|macOS

|Mac OS X

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{yes}}

|{{noyes}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

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|Unix

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|?

|{{yes}}

|{{no}}

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! scope="row" rowspan="4" | User Interface

|[[Command-line interface|CLI]]

| {{dunno}}

|?

|?

|{{yes}}

|{{yes}}

|?

| {{dunno}}

|{{yes}}, via [[PowerShell]]<ref>{{cite web|author1=Microsoft TechNet|title=Web Server (IIS) Administration Cmdlets in Windows PowerShell|url=https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee790599.aspx|publisher=Microsoft}}</ref>

|{{yes}}, via [[PowerShell]]<ref>{{cite web|author1=Microsoft TechNet|title=Web Server (IIS) Administration Cmdlets in Windows PowerShell|date=9 November 2009 |url=https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee790599.aspx|publisher=Microsoft}}</ref>

|?

| {{dunno}}

|-

|[[Graphical user interface|GUI]] integrated

|{{yes}}

|?

|{{yes}}

|{{yes}}

|{{yes}}

|{{yes}}

|?

| {{dunno}}

|-

|[[Graphical user interface|GUI(s)]] separately

|{{yes}}

|{{yes}}

|?

| {{dunno}}

|?

| {{dunno}}

|?

| {{dunno}}

|?

| {{dunno}}

|?

|-

|[[Web application|Web-based GUI]]

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|{{no}}

|{{no}}

| {{dunno}}

|?

|-

! scope="row" rowspan="7" | Services

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|[[Failover Cluster|Failover Cluster<br />(active/passive)]]

|{{yes}}

|{{noyes}}

|{{yes}}

|{{no}}

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|[[Load Balancer|Load Balancing<br />(active/active)]]

|{{yes}}

|{{yes}}

|?

|{{yes}}

|{{no}}

|{{yes}}

| {{dunno}}

|?

|-

! scope="row" rowspan="2" | Automation

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|{{no}}

|{{no}}

| {{dunno}}

|?

|-

|[[Scripting language|Scripting]]

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|{{no}}

|{{no}}

| {{dunno}}

|?

|-

!

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{|class="wikitable"

|-

! scope="col" colspan="2" |

! scope="col" |

! scope="col" |[[CrushFTP Server|CrushFTP]]

! scope="col" |[[ProFTPD]]

! scope="col" |[[Pure-FTPd]]

! scope="col" |[[vsftpd]]

! scope="col" |[[Wu-ftp]]

|-

! scope="row" colspan="2" | License type

|License type

|[[proprietary software|proprietary]]

|[[FLOSS]]/[[GPL]]

|[[BSD]]

|[[FLOSS]]/[[GPL2]]

|[[proprietary software|proprietary]]

|{{open source|[[FLOSS]]/[[GPL]]}}

|{{open source|[[BSD]]}}

|{{open source|[[FLOSS]]/[[GPL2]]}}

|-

! scope="row" rowspan="4" | OS

|Linux

|{{yes}}

|{{yes}}

|{{yes}}

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|{{yes}}

|-

|macOS

|Mac OS X

|{{yes}}

|{{yes}}

|{{yes}}

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|-

|Unix

|{{yes}}

|{{yes}}

|{{yes}}

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|{{yes}}

|{{no}}

|?

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|?

|-

! scope="row" rowspan="4" | User Interface

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|{{yes}}

|{{yes}}

|{{yes}}

|?

|{{yes}}

|?

|?

|-

|[[Graphical user interface|GUI]] integrated

|{{yes}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|?

|{{no}}

|?

|?

|-

|[[Graphical user interface|GUI(s)]] separately

|{{yes}}

|{{yes}}

|{{no}}

|?

|{{no}}

|?

|?

|-

|[[Web application|Web-based GUI]]

|{{yes}}

|{{no}}

|?

|{{no}}

|?

|{{no}}

|?

|?

|-

! scope="row" rowspan="7" | Services

|[[FTP]]

|{{yes}}

|{{yes}}

|{{yes}}

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|{{yes}}

|{{yes}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

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|{{yes}}

|{{yes}}

|?

|-

|[[Secure copy|SCP]]

|{{yes}}

|?

|?

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|?

|{{no}}

|-

|[[WebDAV]]

|{{yes}}

|?

|?

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|?

|{{no}}

|-

|[[HTTP|HTTP/HTTPS]]

|{{yes}}

|?

|?

|{{no}}

|{{no}}

|?

|{{no}}

|-

|[[AS2]]

|{{yes}}

|{{no}}

|?

|{{no}}

|?

|{{no}}

|?

|?

|-

! scope="row" rowspan="4" | Authentication

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|{{yes}}

|{{yes}}

| {{dunno}}

|?

|?

|-

|[[Active Directory]]

|{{yes}}

|{{no}}

|?

|{{no}}

|?

|{{no}}

|?

|?

|-

|Local

|{{yes}}

|{{yes}}

|{{yes}}

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|{{yes}}

|{{no}}

|?

|-

! scope="row" rowspan="2" | High Availability

|[[Failover Cluster|Failover Cluster<br />(active/passive)]]

|{{yes}}

|{{no}}

|?

|{{no}}

|?

|{{no}}

|?

|?

|-

|[[Load Balancer|Load Balancing<br />(active/active)]]

|{{yes}}

|{{no}}

|?

|{{no}}

|?

|{{no}}

|?

|?

|-

! scope="row" rowspan="2" | Automation

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|{{yes}}

|{{yes}}

| {{dunno}}

|?

| {{dunno}}

|?

|?

|-

|[[Scripting language|Scripting]]

|{{yes}}

|{{yes}}

|{{no}}

|?

|{{no}}

|?

|?

|-

!

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! [[Pure-FTPd]]

! [[vsftpd]]

! [[Wu-ftp]]

|}

== See also ==

* [[Comparison of FTP client software]]

* [[File Transfer Protocol|File Transfer Protocol (FTP)]]

* [[Comparison of FTP client software]]

* [[FTPS]] (FTP over [[Secure Sockets Layer|SSL]]/[[Transport Layer Security|TLS]])

* [[FTP over SSH]]

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== Notes ==

<References/>

== External links ==

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

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