best FTP server for web server

[Rick Stevens]

On 10/04/2010 10:16 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 13:55:46 +0200,
>    Alain Roger<raf.news at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> i'm looking for a good ftp server (free) which could work perfectly with a
>> web server.
>> basically i read a lot about proftpd but i have some problem with support.
>> Question stay unanswered :-(
>> so is there another good ftp server which could make a deal ?
>>
>> the idea behind is to have a web server for testing purpose (in the testlab
>> for developers)
>>
>> thank a lot.
>
> In general you want to avoid using ftp except for providing anonymous
> downloads. For uploads, you should be using something that doesn't expose
> passwords in network traffic. ssh is a better alternative for that.
> 'putty' is an ssh client available gratis for Windows, if that is a concern.

Don't forget there is FTP-S (FTP over SSL).  vsftpd supports both FTP
and FTP-S.  Most reasonable FTP clients also support it (gftp,
kasablanca, etc.).
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