Types of FTP
Web Hosting Tutorials January 17th, 2007You can install different types of ftp services on your server. Following are some of them.
1)VSFTPD:- vsftp is “Very Secure FTP Daemon”. The vsftpd package contains a very secure and very small FTP daemon. This is useful for serving files over a network.
Download url:- ftp://vsftpd.beasts.org/users/cevans/vsftpd-2.0.4.tar.gz
2) PURE_FTPD:- Pure-FTPd is actively supported, and it was always designed with security in mind, and the code is always re-audited as new kind of vulnerabilities are discussed. The server can run with privilege separation for paranoid security. It can even run 100% non-root, with its built-in chroot() emulation and virtual accounts.
Download URL:- ftp://ftp.pureftpd.org/pub/pure-ftpd/releases/pure-ftpd-1.0.21.tar.gz
3) PRO_FTP:- a web-based tool written in PHP aimed at managing users and groups for a ftp-server called “proFTPd”. ProFTPD powers some of the largest sites on the Internet. It features a very Apache-like configuration syntax, modules, and a highly customizable server infrastructure, including support for multiple ‘virtual’ FTP servers, anonymous FTP, and permission-based directory visibility.
Download url:- ftp://fara.cs.uni-potsdam.de/pub/kproftpd/
Windows 2000, Xp and 2003 includes a built in ftp service component that lets ftp clients connect to machine and read write files.











