List of FTP server software
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Graphical[edit]
| Name | License | Platform | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALFTP | proprietary | Windows only | Personal FTP server |
| Cerberus FTP Server | proprietary, commercial | Windows only | FTP, FTPS, SFTP, HTTPS web client, IPv6, SOAP-based web services API, Windows Active Directory / LDAP authentication, HTTP / HTTPS remote administration, public key and client certificate authentication |
| Complete FTP Server | proprietary, commercial | Windows only | FTP, FTPS, SFTP, HTTP, HTTPS, Windows Active Directory, remote administration, public key and client certificate authentication, Plugin API (.NET) |
| CrushFTP Server | proprietary, shareware | Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, *BSD, Solaris, etc. | FTP, FTPS, SFTP, SCP, HTTP, HTTPS, WebDAV and WebDAV over SSL, AS2, AS3, Plugin API, Windows Active Directory / LDAP authentication, SQL authentication, Web based administration, Events / Alerts, Protocol Conversion (incoming FTP/FTPS/SFTP/HTTP(s) protocols converted to a back end FTP/SFTP/HTTP(s) server.), SSH Tunneling, HTTP(S) Tunneling, CrushTask, client certificate authentication, PGP in stream encryption / decryption, bandwidth acceleration (CrushTunnel), file revisions and synchronization, DMZ front end server mode. |
| FileZilla Server | open source, free software | Windows XP/Vista/7 Windows Server 2003/R2, 2008/R2 | FTP, FTPS, supports autoban, speedlimits, IP Filter, Groups, Shared folders, compression, |
| GoAnywhere Services | proprietary | i5/OS, Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, Windows, AIX | AS2, FTP, FTPS, SFTP, SCP, HTTP and HTTPS protocols supported. Web portal and file trigger capabilities. User authentication provided with Active Directory, LDAP, password or certificates. Web-based administration for user account management, file trigger configuration and secure file transfer. |
| Microsoft Internet Information Services | proprietary | Windows only | FTP, FTPS
(FTPS is supported in IIS 7 and later) |
| NASLite | proprietary | Linux based | FTP/NAS server |
| Sysax Multi Server | proprietary, Free Personal Edition | Windows (All Editions) | Secure FTP Server that also supports Secure Shell Access and Web browser based secure file transfer. Protocols supported include FTP, FTPS, SFTP, HTTP, HTTPS, Telnet, and Secure Shell. Features include remote browser based administration, server event triggers and scripting, and authentication using Windows, ODBC, or Active Directory. Certified for Windows Vista. |
| War FTP Daemon | open source, free software | Windows 9X/2000/XP/2003 | One of the original FTP servers made for the windows platform and still available. |
| WS FTP Server | proprietary | Windows only: XP or later[1] | WS_FTP stands for WinSock File Transfer Protocol. It's developed and sold by Ipswitch, which offers it with three different prices:[2] an FTP server, an SFTP server, and the full Corporate version with encrypting and SCP2. |
Console/terminal-based[edit]
| Name | Licence | Platform | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| CrushFTP Server | proprietary, shareware | Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, *BSD, Solaris, etc. | FTP, FTPS, SFTP, SCP, HTTP, HTTPS, WebDAV and WebDAV over SSL, AS2, AS3, Plugin API, Windows Active Directory / LDAP authentication, SQL authentication, GUI remote administration, Events / Alerts, Protocol Conversion (incoming FTP/FTPS/SFTP/HTTP/HTTPS protocols converted to a back end FTP/SFTP server.), SSH Tunneling, HTTP(S) Tunneling, CrushTask, Headless (A separate GUI machine can connect and control the server, or you can edit XML files directly.) |
| glFTPd | freeware | Linux, BSD, Mac OS X | This server has numerous features making many complex and complicated setups possible. Some of the most important are: 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 FXP. |
| GoAnywhere Services | proprietary | Linux, BSD, Unix, AIX, i5/OS, HP-UX | Enterprise Level file transfer with Web portal and file trigger capabilities. |
| ProFTPD | open-source | Unix-like (Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, and more[3]), Windows with Cygwin | Very feature rich and popular FTP daemon for Unix-like platforms. Many third party Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) available. SFTP with a module.[4] |
| Pure-FTPd | open-source | Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, and more | default FTP daemon in many Linux distributions[citation needed]. Supports FXP. |
| SlimFTPd | open-source, BSD License | Windows only | |
| vsftpd (Very Secure FTP Daemon) | GPLv2 | Linux, BSD, and more | Supports standard FTP and secure FTPS protocols. Builtin mechanisms allow implicit and explicit mode of FTPS. Security is achieved by using of external SSL library, which simplify the source code of the server. An unusual feature is the ability to force anonymous connections through SSL encryption, thus increasing overall security of anonymous file transfers. SSLv1, SSLv2 and TLS protocols are provided. Optionally validation of client certificates can be configured. The access of users can be controlled by deny and enable lists. The server can be configured to generate detailed activity logs - the log format may be verbose or compatible with wu-ftpd format. vsftpd is default FTP daemon in Ubuntu, CentOS, Fedora, Slackware (along with ProFTPD), NimbleX and RHEL. Others like Debian require an additional installation. The licensing model of vsftpd is GPLv2 with exception which allows linking with OpenSSL library. |
| wu-ftpd | open-source | Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X and more | Main website seems offline, but continues development in the newer CC series |
Libraries[edit]
| Name | Licence | Language | Platform | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pyftpdlib | MIT License | Python | Platform independent | A high-level portable library to easily write asynchronous FTP servers with Python. It is currently the most complete RFC-959 FTP server implementation available for Python. |
Summary board[edit]
| ALFTP | Cerberus | Complete | CrushFTP | FileZilla | GoAnywhere | GlobalSCAPE EFT Server | IIS | Multi Server | ProFTPD | WS FTP | Serv-U | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| License type | proprietary | proprietary | proprietary | proprietary | FLOSS/GPL2 | proprietary | proprietary | proprietary | proprietary | FLOSS/GPL | proprietary | proprietary | |
| OS | Linux | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| Mac OS X | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | |
| Unix | No | No | ? | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | |
| IBM i/OS | No | No | ? | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | |
| Windows | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| User Interface | CLI | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? |
| GUI integrated | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | ? | No | Yes | ? | |
| GUI(s) separately | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | |
| Services | FTP | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| SFTP | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| FTPS | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| SCP | ? | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | ? | Yes | No | |
| WebDAV | ? | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | ? | No | No | |
| HTTP/HTTPS | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | |
| AS2 | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | ? | No | No | |
| Authentication | LDAP | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| Active Directory | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | |
| Local | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Database | ? | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| High Availability | Failover Cluster (active/passive) |
No | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | ? | Yes | Yes |
| Load Balancing (active/active) |
No | Yes | ? | ? | No | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes |
Notes[edit]
- ^ http://docs.ipswitch.com/WS_FTP_Server75/Manuals/WS_FTP_Server_Installation_and_Configuration_Guide.pdf?k_id=ipswitch_com_ftp_documents_worldwide_ws_ftpserver75installationandconfigurationguide
- ^ http://www.ipswitch.ca/download/ws-ftp-server-datasheet.pdf
- ^ http://www.proftpd.org/features.html
- ^ http://www.proftpd.org/docs/contrib/mod_sftp.html
See also[edit]
- Comparison of FTP client software
- File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
- FTPS (FTP over SSL/TLS)
- FTP over SSH
- SSH file transfer protocol (SFTP)
- Comparison of SSH servers
- Comparison of SSH clients
