Comparison of FTP servers
The table below compares basic characteristics of FTP Servers. This list is not exhaustive.
Name |
Managed by |
Target Niche |
OS |
Features |
License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Marvin Colgin |
Commercial and home use |
Windows® 98 SE, ME, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista and Mac OS X |
Activity and Traffic Monitor, User Quota system, Bandwidth Throttling, GUI Administration with Windows System Service Support, Event Manager (eg: React on file upload), Resumed Upload/Downloads, Anti-Hammering |
Proprietary |
|
Cerberus FTP Server |
Cerberus, LLC |
Commercial and home use |
Windows NT,2000,XP,2003, Vista |
Simple Administration, TLS/SSL security, IPv6, logging, Active Directory authentication |
Free for personal use |
CrossFTP Server |
Crossworld |
Medium traffic, secure enabled (couples well with FTP and FTPS) |
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux/Unix variants |
GUI Administration, TLS/SSL security, monitoring, logging, File/LDAP/Database backend, Web Start with CrossFTP Client included |
Apache License V2.0 |
CrushFTP Server |
Ben Spink |
Commercial to Home User |
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Unix, Solaris |
FTP, FTPS, SFTP, HTTP, HTTPS, WebDAV, Remote Administration, WebInterface, Zipped Uploads and Downloads, Plugin Architecture, Usage Reports, Email Event Notification, SQL, LDAP, Virtual File System, AJAX + XSLT, Adobe PDF Form Posting and Uploads, User and Group Inheritance, Virtual File System Chaining, Virtual Domains, Quotas, Ratios, Bandwidth Limiters, Live Graphs, Self Update, Automatic Backups, UTF-8 |
Proprietary |
Fastream IQ Web/FTP Server |
Fastream Technologies |
Commercial application |
Windows 2000, XP Home/Professional, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Server 2003 and Vista |
Web server included, TLS/SSL security control, Remote administration |
Proprietary |
FileZilla Server |
Tim Kosse |
Medium traffic, medium security, non-critical |
Windows NT,2000,XP,2003 |
Simple administration, TLS/SSL security control, Remote administration |
GPL |
IceWarp Server |
IceWarp Software |
Commercial and free editions |
Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000, 2003 Server, XP, Vista |
FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, WebDAV, OTP/S-KEY, Remote GUI or Command Line Interpreter, User and Group Management, Home and Shared Folders, Virtual Hosts, Quotas, Bandwidth Throttling, Live Statistics, Automatic Synchronization, Integration with Email/IM, Active Directory and LDAP Mirroring, Service Monitoring, Watchdogs, Events |
Proprietary |
Internet Information Services |
Microsoft |
Commercial applications |
Windows NT, 2000, XP Professional, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Server 2003 and future releases |
Remote administration inside Active Directory |
Proprietary |
JSCAPE Secure FTP Server |
JSCAPE |
Commercial applications |
Windows, Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X |
Support for FTP, FTPS, SFTP/SSH, HTTP/S and WebDAV protocols. User authentication support for LDAP, Active Directory and database user repositories. Virtual file system, multiple domains and extensive support for triggers and business process automation. |
Proprietary with free Community Edition available. |
KDE Public File Server (kpf) 1 |
Rik Hemsley |
small menu bar applet |
Linux, BSD etc. with KDE |
lightweight, basic, configurable, graphical monitoring |
GPL |
ProFTPd |
The proftpd Project |
Fast, secure, modulable |
Linux, Mac OS X, Windows (with cygwin) |
LDAP Authentication, TLS/SSL security control, Shaping traffic, SQL or LDAP or File Quota, Ratio ... |
GPL |
Pure-FTPd |
Frank Denis |
Production and secure environments |
Linux, Solaris, HPUX, Mac OS X and FreeBSD, (Potentially Windows though unofficial) |
TLS Encryption, Flexible authentication |
BSD |
Serv-U |
Rhinosoft |
High traffic, production and secure environments |
Windows |
NT-SAM, Active Directory, Ldap, TLS/SSL, Traffic Shaping, SQL, File Quota, Ratio, HIPAA Compliant |
Free for Personal Use, Corporate versions available |
Vsftpd |
Chris Evans |
High traffic, production and secure environments (couples well with ssh for sftp) |
Linux/Unix variants |
GPL |
|
War FTP Daemon |
Jarle ("jgaa") Aase |
Commercial and home use, production environments, no government use |
Windows |
SSL, Python plugins, Quotas, soft links, file comments (via NTFS streams), EMail/SMS event notification, bandwidth limiter, NAT |
Proprietary (Freeware) |
wzdftpd |
Pierre Chifflier |
Modular, extensible, feature rich |
Linux, Windows & BSD |
TLS, VFS, UTF-8, IPv4/6, Zeroconf, CRC, TCL, Perl, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, customizable via SITE commands, event triggers, support for plugins/modules/scripting |
GPLv2 or later |
zFTPServer |
Västgöta-Data AB |
Home and commercial use |
Windows NT,2000,XP,2003 |
Simple administration, TLS/SSL security control, Remote administration, virtual filesystems, Anti-Hammering, System Service |
Proprietary (Freeware with paid extensions/support) |
See also
- List of FTP servers
- List of FTP clients
- FTP
- FTPS