We've worked with:
Example of free FTP server:
ftp.gnu.org
ftp.pureftpd.org
ftp.vim.org
ftp.slackware.com
Our web FTP client make it easy to manage and explore the data on your server. It will work with any FTP compliant server such as Proftpd, Pureftpd, Filezilla, Vsftpd, ...
From watching videos to viewing images, the integrated FTP editor enables not only the viewing and editing of office documents but virtually any file format. Want something different? Plugins to the rescue.
From basic recursive searches to advanced full-text search capabilities, our plugins connect everything together to handle the complexity of enterprise search within your FTP environment.
Our FTP client tool is a web application that works seamlessly in any browser, including Chrome, Firefox, Chromium, and more, eliminating the hassle of installing software first.
Use shared links to collaborate with users who don't even have an account on your FTP server. Apply fined grained access control to keep your shared content under control.
Provide your users with a sleek interface, whether as a standalone application within your infrastructure, as part of ours, or integrated into your own application.
Our web FTP tool is fully customizable, supporting white labeling and extension through plugins to adapt to your unique needs and workflows with a lot of flexibility.
Shared links integrates with your file manager. They can be used as a network drive under windows, OSX or Linux. Those links are full fledge WebDAV server that ties onto your FTP
Filestash is open source software. Our code is available from Github so you can audit, expand and self host your own version (see the documentation).
Traditional FTP clients such as Filezilla FTP or WinSCP are great for sysadmin and engineers but all your users might not be familiar with the underlying protocol and just want a tool to get things done im a simple manner. The value proposition of Filestash is to make FTP easy to use for your end-users, bringing collaboration features to make FTP a modern replacement to Dropbox.
FTP stands for "File Transfer Protocol"
FTP is a protocol that defines how two machines (known as the client and the server) can communicate over a network to transfer files. It has been defined in many different RFCs
FTP is used to transfer files over a network
An FTP server is a server software that implements the FTP protocol (example: PureFTPd, bftpd, proFTPd, Filezilla server, ...). It is used to enable the sharing of files between different parties over a network.
An FTP client is a software that can be used to access an FTP server. Example: Filezilla FTP, Filestash, Cyberduck, ...
FTP was invented by Abhay Bhushan while he was a student at MIT.
The original specification of FTP was published the 16 April 1971 and was revisited several times in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s.
FTP is a means by which two machines can transfer files over a network.
No, FTP is alive and well. If we account only for the visible side of the iceberg, there are about as many FTP servers exposed to the internet as the entire population of Switzerland.
While it is true that FTP wasn't initially created with security in mind, the protocol got refined in 2005 to support TLS with RFC4217
Being invented 18 years before Time Berners Lee invented HTTP, FTP has passed the test of time. In 2020, there's still millions of FTP servers exposed to the internet and all popular FTP servers are still being actively maintained
No. In fact, FTP was created at a time where nobody could afford the hardware to run anything bulky.
Not necessarily. FTP is a protocol, not an end-user application. On the many software available for FTP, some are harder to use than other ones. Filestash is quite easy to use
Out of the millions of FTP server exposed to the internet, the most popular server software are:
FTP clients are available in 2 flavors:
