Is Serv-U An Industry Standard?

Hey all I've been working my first real tech job, and I've been exposed to a lot of interesting things thus far. They host several thousand websites and I was noticing they use Serv-U to grant users FTP access. This was curious to me because that's what I use to FTP into my own home computers. I mean the program is effective, but doesn't seem that polished or have many features. Which leads me to my question, is Serv-U actually an industry standard for giving users FTP access or is there a more enterprise level application that's commonly used?

Are you sure you were looking at a recent version? (There are still a lot of copies of v6 out there; the current version is v11.)

http://www.serv-u.com/screenshots/

What features were you looking for that you couldn't find?

I guess this is a pretty specific question, but I want to give it at least one bump before it gets buried.

Le.. BUMP!

rhinomania said:

Are you sure you were looking at a recent version? (There are still a lot of copies of v6 out there; the current version is v11.)

http://www.serv-u.com/screenshots/

What features were you looking for that you couldn't find?

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What version are you using?

I've used serv-u in the past. It was generally stable and from what I can tell wasn't full of security holes. I guess as long as it's stable, secure, and offers the features it doesn't matter whether it has "enterprise" in the name.

[yes, I work in IT, but only small business support]

Pinky said:

What version are you using?

I've used serv-u in the past. It was generally stable and from what I can tell wasn't full of security holes. I guess as long as it's stable, secure, and offers the features it doesn't matter whether it has "enterprise" in the name.

[yes, I work in IT, but only small business support]

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the overhead is small on Serv-U, very small footprint. the protocol does what it needs to do and you dont need anything high tech for a FTP server. however, as long as you keep up to date and do your ftp security you will be fine.


the one feature i loved about Serv-U was the ban after x retries and being able to set the ban timer. seeing your site being hammered by brute force atackers is kind of annoying

There is no real industry standard for FTP servers. There's thousands of FTP server apps out there, there is no real consensus.

Professionally, I've always preferred pure-ftpd and vsftpd. Not sure about the windows offerings for FTP servers though. Personally, I just use SFTP via OpenSSH.