Cerberus FTP Server is a full-featured and secure FTP server. It is free for personal, non-business use. Companies can purchase it for $69.95. I have to admit that I haven't used FTP servers for a long time. But I love what I am seeing by looking at Cerberus FTP Server's interface and array of features. Every feature that an FTP server should have is included in this app. The user interface is very simple. It looks clean, but if you dig around you will find some very advanced features.
The server configuration, which is the most important aspect of FTP servers is VERY easy to complete. By hitting next during the wizard, you end up with a fully-functional FTP server. You even get help about port-forwarding and protocols while it is installing. You can add your first users from that wizard, or you can access the User Manager afterwards. I won't go over all the features because there are literally hundreds of them. But with Cerberus FTP Server you get PASV Mode, SSL encryption, LDAP server, IP-Blocking, auto-banning, logging and even transfer stats.
You can monitor the status of the server at all times and when you close the window, Cerberus FTP Server minimizes to the tray, where you can keep on monitoring it.
Performance-wise, Cerberus FTP Server seems to work well, but with FTP servers you don't know until you have hundreds of users connected downloading and uploading files.
v5.0.68 [Oct 20, 2011]
HTTP and HTTPS client access
Event support (SMTP notification, launch an external process)
New Summary page provides health, security and compliance status at a glance
New password change policy requirement options
New password expiration policies
New password storage options: Cryptographically salted MD5, SHA1, SHA256, SHA512
SSH SFTP password change support
Added file and directory listing permissions to virtual directories
Added FTP MODE Z compression support
SFTP now sends the welcome message as an SSH banner message
New account request via web HTTP/HTTPS
Added option to add additional account information like name, email, telephone
Added support for new FTP HASH command
Added ability to restrict login by protocol login on a per user and group basis
Added SSH MAC algorithms hmac-sha2-256, hmac-sha2-256-96, hmac-sha2-512, and hmac-sha2-512-96
Improved web administration performance and web administration options
New CSR generation tool
Added web administrator account request approval
Added web administrator security page
Added web administrator add/delete listener capability
Several web administration bug fixes and usability improvements
IP manager UI bug fix
Minor bug fixes
Fixed bug with AD authentication and HTTP
Fixed HTTP cookie not always getting set
Fixed an AD directory mapping bug
Fixed an HTTP upload bug in some version of IE
Improved HTTP redirection
Improved web client error reporting
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