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    • DustinB3403D
      DustinB3403
      last edited by scottalanmiller

      OK so here's a question for the community.

      We currently are renting an FTP service from Maytech. It works well, but is EXPENSIVE....

      It's on 20GB (so is really tiny).

      It has a few critical features though.

      Password less logon (for clients or vendors etc) and custom sites for different clients.

      So we could have our top level "Owners" and then Client1 Client2 Client3 all with distinct FTP pages (and custom logon information for each site)

      Are there any linux distributions that can mimic this setup and feature set? Easily, and with Minimal setup.

      Looking for expiration, quota limits, and specifically (critical) custom sub-FTP-sites that can be assigned to a client, which must be able to be managed from the root account.

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller
        last edited by

        What you are describing is just FTP. Super simple. You can do this on anything. I don't see any features here that aren't just basic FTP. And I'm not sure that someone could add features to FTP as that would break the protocol.

        FTP hosting should approach free. Nearly every cheap web hosting service ($3/mo) includes FTP hosting in the service.

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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller
          last edited by

          A big question, of course, is why FTP?

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          • DustinB3403D
            DustinB3403
            last edited by

            Oh of critical importance is OS independence Browser based access.

            Sorry forgot to add that.

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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
              last edited by

              @DustinB3403 said:

              Oh of critical importance is OS independence Browser based access.

              Sorry forgot to add that.

              All included when you say FTP.

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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller
                last edited by

                I think what you are missing here is that FTP is FTP. Just like HTTP, SSH or SMTP are just protocols. That's all that they are. No matter what platform serves them, any client that talks that language can consume them. The server does not determine the features, the protocol does.

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                • scottalanmillerS
                  scottalanmiller
                  last edited by

                  There are several FTP servers that are very common on Linux. I would use the default one for whatever distro you want to use.

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                  • JoyJ
                    Joy
                    last edited by

                    Personal FTP like Filezilla Server?

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                    • scottalanmillerS
                      scottalanmiller @Joy
                      last edited by

                      @Joy said:

                      Personal FTP like Filezilla Server?

                      That's what you would want to use as a client for FTP. Much more powerful than using a web browser in most cases. Especially if you want to upload too.

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                      • JoyJ
                        Joy
                        last edited by

                        We are using the Filezilla Server and also Filezilla client before-

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                        • scottalanmillerS
                          scottalanmiller @Joy
                          last edited by

                          @Joy said:

                          We are using the Filezilla Server and also Filezilla client before-

                          That's a desktop application "server" and not meant for production use. If you are on Windows I would stick with IIS. On Linux, you have lots of built in FTP options.

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                          • DustinB3403D
                            DustinB3403
                            last edited by

                            So any recommendations, as it appears I actually need an HTTP File server with an Easy to Use Web front (for end users).

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                            • W
                              WingCreative
                              last edited by

                              OwnCloud or Pydio may fit the bill in that case.

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                              • scottalanmillerS
                                scottalanmiller @WingCreative
                                last edited by

                                @WingCreative said:

                                OwnCloud or Pydio may fit the bill in that case.

                                Those would be my first thoughts. You can just use WebDAV too, like SharePoint does.

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                                • scottalanmillerS
                                  scottalanmiller
                                  last edited by

                                  Alfresco would do it too.

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                                  • mlnewsM
                                    mlnews
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                                    What about a WordPress Uploader Plugin?

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                                      mlnews
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                                      extPlorter

                                      extplorter

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                                          NavPHP

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                                            mlnews
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                                            that is seriously ugly

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