Thursday, October 16, 2008

windows ftp servers

as i sit here listening to opera old (la traviata) and new (chess) i am fighting with windows ftp servers.

what choices do you have?

- microsoft iis ftp
- filezilla server
- xlight ftp

i hate iis ftp. sure it's better than nt 4 ftp, and it's better than some university ftp server i ran on nt 3.51 - but i still don't like it.

filezilla server is what i like.
- xml config file - not as nice as apache config
- human readable config file
- programmatically modifiable config
- nice alias management
- remote admin
- user interface you are not fighting
- BUT i had issue with mac user not connecting with cyberduck from puerto rico (of course i connect no problem)

so i switched to xlight. which i don't like.
- sucky interface
- confusing interface
- non human readable config
- slow directory listing speeds

i recommend filezilla ftp server.

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