Contents
- Graphical
- Console/terminal-based
- Libraries
- Summary board
- Graphical UI based FTP Servers
- Terminal/Console based FTP Servers
- See also
- Notes
- External links
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| Name | License | Platform | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cerberus FTP Server | Proprietary | Windows only | FTP, FTPS, SFTP, SCP, HTTPS web client, IPv6, SOAP-based web services API, Windows Active Directory / LDAP authentication, HTTP / HTTPS remote administration, public key and client certificate authentication |
| CompleteFTP | trialware | Windows only | FTP, FTPS, SFTP, SCP, HTTP, HTTPS, Windows Active Directory authentication, SQL authentication, SAML Single Sign-On authentication, groups, virtual file-system, process/e-mail events, data at rest encryption, protocol conversion for back-end servers, SSH tunnelling, file-sharing (via client app), web-app hosting via server-side Javascript, remote administration, public key and client certificate authentication, Plugin API (.NET/Javascript), fail-over, load-balancing, dockable dashboard |
| CrushFTP Server | trialware | Mac OS X, Windows (all), Linux (all), *BSD, Solaris, IBM. | FTP, FTPS, SFTP, SCP, HTTP, HTTPS, WebDAV(SSL), AS2, 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.), SSH Tunneling, HTTP(S) Tunneling, CrushTask, client certificate authentication, ad-hoc file sharing, keywords search, PGP in stream encryption / decryption, bandwidth acceleration (CrushTunnel), file revisions and synchronization, DMZ front end server mode can also cluster with 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 S3, Azure, [Citrix] file storage, Hadoop and Google Drive for file data. |
| FileZilla Server | free software | Windows Mac OS X | FTP, FTPS, supports autoban, speedlimits, IP Filter, Groups, Shared folders, compression |
| Microsoft Internet Information Services | Proprietary | Windows only | FTP, FTPS, WebDAV and WebDAV over SSL (FTPS is supported in IIS 7 and later) |
| 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 web UI administration, server event triggers and scripting, and authentication using Windows, ODBC, or Active Directory. Certified for Windows Vista. |
| War FTP Daemon | free software | Windows 9X/2000/XP/2003 | One of the original FTP servers made for the windows platform and still available. |
| Name | FOSS | Platform | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| CrushFTP Server | No, proprietary | 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, 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.), SSH Tunneling, 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 S3, 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 | No, proprietary | Linux, BSD, Mac OS X | 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. |
| ProFTPD | Yes, GPL | Unix-like (Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, and more [1] ), Windows with Cygwin | Feature rich and popular FTP daemon for Unix-like platforms. Many third party Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) available. SFTP can be supported via add-on module. [2] |
| Pure-FTPd | Yes, BSD License | Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, and more | Supports FXP. |
| vsftpd | Yes, GPLv2 | Linux, BSD, and more | 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, CentOS, Fedora, Slackware (along with ProFTPD), NimbleX and RHEL. Others like Debian require an additional installation. GPLv2 license with exception for linking with OpenSSL. |
| WU-FTPD | No, proprietary | Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X and more | Main website seems offline, but continues development in the newer CC series |
| 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. |
| Cerberus | Complete | CrushFTP Server | FileZilla | IIS | Multi Server | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| License type | proprietary | proprietary | proprietary | FLOSS/GPL2 | proprietary | proprietary | |
| OS | Linux | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Mac OS X | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | |
| Unix | No | ? | Yes | No | No | No | |
| Windows | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| User Interface | CLI | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes, via PowerShell [3] | ? |
| GUI integrated | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | |
| GUI(s) separately | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | |
| Web-based GUI | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | ? | |
| Services | FTP | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| SFTP | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | |
| FTPS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| SCP | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | |
| WebDAV | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | |
| HTTP/HTTPS | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| AS2 | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | |
| Authentication | LDAP | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| Active Directory | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| Local | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Database | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | |
| High Availability | Failover Cluster (active/passive) | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| Load Balancing (active/active) | Yes | ? | Yes | No | Yes | ? | |
| Automation | Event-handling | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | ? |
| Scripting | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | ? | |
| Cerberus | Complete | CrushFTP Server | FileZilla | IIS | Multi Server |
| CrushFTP | ProFTPD | Pure-FTPd | vsftpd | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| License type | proprietary | FLOSS/GPL | BSD | FLOSS/GPL2 | |
| OS | Linux | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Mac OS X | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Unix | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Windows | Yes | No | No | No | |
| User Interface | CLI | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| GUI integrated | Yes | No | No | No | |
| GUI(s) separately | Yes | Yes | No | No | |
| Web-based GUI | Yes | No | No | No | |
| Services | FTP | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| SFTP | Yes | Yes | No | No | |
| FTPS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| SCP | Yes | No | No | No | |
| WebDAV | Yes | No | No | No | |
| HTTP/HTTPS | Yes | No | No | No | |
| AS2 | Yes | No | No | No | |
| Authentication | LDAP | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? |
| Active Directory | Yes | No | No | No | |
| Local | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Database | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| High Availability | Failover Cluster (active/passive) | Yes | No | No | No |
| Load Balancing (active/active) | Yes | No | No | No | |
| Automation | Event-handling | Yes | Yes | ? | ? |
| Scripting | Yes | Yes | No | No | |
| CrushFTP | ProFTPD | Pure-FTPd | vsftpd |
The Secure Shell Protocol (SSH) is a cryptographic network protocol for operating network services securely over an unsecured network. Its most notable applications are remote login and command-line execution.
The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a standard communication protocol used for the transfer of computer files from a server to a client on a computer network. FTP is built on a client–server model architecture using separate control and data connections between the client and the server. FTP users may authenticate themselves with a clear-text sign-in protocol, normally in the form of a username and password, but can connect anonymously if the server is configured to allow it. For secure transmission that protects the username and password, and encrypts the content, FTP is often secured with SSL/TLS (FTPS) or replaced with SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP).
In computing, the SSH File Transfer Protocol is a network protocol that provides file access, file transfer, and file management over any reliable data stream. It was designed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) as an extension of the Secure Shell protocol (SSH) version 2.0 to provide secure file transfer capabilities. The IETF Internet Draft states that, even though this protocol is described in the context of the SSH-2 protocol, it could be used in a number of different applications, such as secure file transfer over Transport Layer Security (TLS) and transfer of management information in VPN applications.
Secure copy protocol (SCP) is a means of securely transferring computer files between a local host and a remote host or between two remote hosts. It is based on the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol. "SCP" commonly refers to both the Secure Copy Protocol and the program itself.
PuTTY is a free and open-source terminal emulator, serial console and network file transfer application. It supports several network protocols, including SCP, SSH, Telnet, rlogin, and raw socket connection. It can also connect to a serial port. The name "PuTTY" has no official meaning.
File eXchange Protocol is a method of data transfer which uses FTP to transfer data from one remote server to another (inter-server) without routing this data through the client's connection. Conventional FTP involves a single server and a single client; all data transmission is done between these two. In the FXP session, a client maintains a standard FTP connection to two servers, and can direct either server to connect to the other to initiate a data transfer. The advantage of using FXP over FTP is evident when a high-bandwidth server demands resources from another high-bandwidth server, but only a low-bandwidth client, such as a network administrator working away from location, has the authority to access the resources on both servers.
sftp is a command-line interface client program to transfer files using the SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP), which runs inside the encrypted Secure Shell connection.
FileZilla is a free and open-source, cross-platform FTP application, consisting of FileZilla Client and FileZilla Server. Clients are available for Windows, Linux, and macOS. Both server and client support FTP and FTPS, while the client can in addition connect to SFTP servers.
FTPS is an extension to the commonly used File Transfer Protocol (FTP) that adds support for the Transport Layer Security (TLS) and, formerly, the Secure Sockets Layer cryptographic protocols.
This article lists communication protocols that are designed for file transfer over a telecommunications network.
The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of File Transfer Protocol (FTP) clients. Unless otherwise specified in footnotes, comparisons are based on the stable versions without any add-ons, extensions, or external programs.
WinSCP is a free and open-source SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP), File Transfer Protocol (FTP), WebDAV, Amazon S3, and secure copy protocol (SCP) client for Microsoft Windows. Its main function is secure file transfer between a local computer and a remote server. Beyond this, WinSCP offers basic file manager and file synchronization functionality. For secure transfers, it uses the Secure Shell protocol (SSH) and supports the SCP protocol in addition to SFTP.
SmartFTP is a network file transfer program for Microsoft Windows that supports file transfer via FTP, FTPS, SFTP, WebDAV, Amazon S3, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Box, Google Cloud Storage and Backblaze B2 protocols. It supports SSL/TLS, IPv6 and FXP, and features a transfer queue, proxy and firewall support, multiple connections, chmod features and drag-and-drop. The software uses the Windows API for its interface. It is available for both IA-32 and x64 editions of Windows.
WISE-FTP is an FTP client for Microsoft Windows that is developed and distributed by the German company AceBIT, located in Darmstadt. Apart from using the normal FTP protocol, Wise-FTP supports the SSH (SFTP) and FTPS (FTP/SSL) protocols, as well as the SSL and TLS cryptographic protocols. Transfers can be carried out via drag and drop, as the program interface is based on Windows Explorer.
ExpanDrive is a network filesystem client for MacOS, Microsoft Windows and Linux that facilitates mapping of local volume to many different types of cloud storage. When a server is mounted with ExpanDrive any program can read, write, and manage remote files as if they were stored locally. This is different from most File Transfer Clients because it is integrated into all applications on the operating system. It also does not require a file to be downloaded to access portions of the content. ExpanDrive is commercial software, at a cost of $49.95 per license. A 7-day, unrestricted demo is available for evaluation.
Sysax Multi Server is a Secure FTP Server and a SSH2 Secure Shell Server for the Windows operating system. Web browser-based secure HTTPS file transfers and Telnet access is also supported. The software is certified for Windows Vista, and tested to be compatible with Windows 7/8. The software is also certified for Windows Server 2012 and runs on all 32 and 64 bit editions of Windows including Windows Server 2008. The Personal edition of the software which includes SSH2/SFTP support is free for non-commercial use.
Sysax FTP Automation is a Secure file transfer automation program for the Windows operating system. It consists of a script generation wizard, script editor and debugger, and a task scheduler. It also contains a secure command line FTP Client program called sysaxftp.exe that is a secure drop-in replacement for the ftp.exe command line program. In addition to FTP, secure file transfer using SSL/TLS (FTPS) and SSH2 (SFTP) are supported. The software is certified for Windows Vista, and tested to be compatible with Windows 7. The software is also certified for Windows Server 2012 and runs on all 32 and 64 bit editions of Windows from Windows 2000/Windows XP to Windows 8/Windows Server 2012. The Personal edition of the software is free for non-commercial use.
CompleteFTP is a proprietary FTP and SFTP server for Windows that supports FTP, FTPS, SFTP, SCP, HTTP and HTTPS.
ProFTPD is an FTP server. ProFTPD is Free and open-source software, compatible with Unix-like systems and Microsoft Windows . Along with vsftpd and Pure-FTPd, ProFTPD is among the most popular FTP servers in Unix-like environments today. Compared to those, which focus e.g. on simplicity, speed or security, ProFTPD's primary design goal is to be a highly feature rich FTP server, exposing a large amount of configuration options to the user.
Bitvise is a proprietary secure remote access software developed for Windows and available as a client and server. The software is based on the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol, which provides a secure channel over an insecure network in a client-server architecture.