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Comparison of FTP server software packages

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Notable implementations of FTP servers (organized by the nature of the interface used to configure them) include:

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Name License Platform Details
ALFTP proprietary Windows only Personal FTP server
BulletProof FTP Server proprietary, shareware Windows only Supports all version of Windows, including XP/Vista/Seven and Server 2003/2008
Cerberus FTP Server proprietary, commercial Windows only FTP, FTPS, SFTP, IPv6, SOAP-based web services API, Windows Active Directory / LDAP authentication, HTTP / HTTPS remote administration, public key and client certificate authentication
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
DataExpress proprietary, business software Microsoft Windows/Windows FTP, FTPS, SFTP, HTTP, HTTPS, WebDAV WebDAV over SSL, AS2/AS3 and Impulse (Ad Hoc) Secure Managed File Transfer. Outgoing client connections FTP, SFTP and SCP
FileZilla Server open source, free software Windows XP/Vista/7 FTP, FTPS
freeFTPd open source, free software Windows NT based FTP, FTPS, SFTP
JCSAPE proprietary Windows, Linux, Solaris, AIX, Linux Z/OS and Mac OS X FTP, FTPS, SFTP, HTTP, HTTPS, WebDAV. event triggers. Java-based.
GoAnywhere Services proprietary i5/OS, Linux, RHEL (RedHat), SLES (SUSE), BSD, Mac OS X, Windows, AIX, Unix, HP-UX, Windows and SQL Server FTP, FTPS, SFTP, HTTP, HTTPS - File transfer server with Web portal and file trigger capabilities.
Microsoft Internet Information Services proprietary Windows only Included in IIS 7 onwards
NASLite free software Linux based FTP/NAS server
Pure-FTPd free software Linux, *BSD, Mac OS X, Windows (experimental)
RaidenFTPD proprietary Windows only FTP, SSL
Rumpus proprietary, commercial Mac OS X (Intel/PPC) Support for FTP, SFTP, HTTP, HTTPS, WebDAV, SSL, customizable web interface, remote web administration, remote application administration, web-based file transfer client, e-mail notifications, drop-ship files to e-mail address, deep linking download
Serv-U File Server proprietary, commercial Windows Support for FTP, FTPS, SFTP, HTTP, HTTPS listeners, Windows Active Directory integration, ODBC user/group storage, custom event triggers, remote browser-based administration, web-based file transfer client
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.
Wing FTP Server proprietary Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris Powerful FTP Server with excellent web interface. Supports XCRC.
Wsftp proprietary Windows only WS_FTP is one of the oldest Shareware FTP clients still around today. WS_FTP stands for WinSock File Transfer Protocol.
zFTPServer proprietary, Free for personal use Windows only Remote administration, support for SSL, FTPS and SFTP, Virtual file system, scripting, multi-threading... and much more. Paid extensions available to add functionality (e.g., Windows/Active Directory-Integrated authentication and event based scripting of internal and external scripts).

Console/terminal-based

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 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.
GoAnywhere Services proprietary Linux, BSD, Unix, AIX, i5/OS, HP-UX Enterprise Level file transfer with Web portal and file trigger capabilities.
MuddleFTPD
ProFTPD open-source Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, Cygwin, and more
publicfile open-source Linux, BSD, and more support FTP and HTTP
Pure-FTPd open-source Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, and more default FTP daemon in many linux distributions[citation needed]
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, NimbleX and RHEL. Others like Slackware and Debian require an additional installation. The licensing model of vsftd 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

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.

See also

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