vsftpd is a GPL licensed FTP server for UNIX systems, including Linux. vsftpd project is secure and extremely fast.
Below, we will see evidence supporting all three assertions. We will also see a list of a few important sites which are happily using vsftpd. This demonstrates vsftpd is a mature and trusted solution.
vsftpd is an FTP server, or daemon. The "vs" stands for Very Secure. Obviously this is not a guarantee, but a reflection that I have written the entire codebase with security in mind, and carefully designed the program to be resilient to attack.
Recent evidence shows that vsftpd is also extremely fast and scalable. vsftpd has achieved ~4000 concurrent users on a single machine, in a production environment.
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Here are some key features of "vsftpd":
· Virtual IP configurations
· Virtual users
· Standalone or inetd operation
· Powerful per-user configurability
· Bandwidth throttling
· Per-source-IP configurability
· Per-source-IP limits
· IPv6
· Encryption support through SSL integration
· etc
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· vsftpd-2.3.4 is released - aside from some minor changes, the most interesting bug fix is an excessive CPU consumption issue with crazy file specs. Credit to Maksymilian Arciemowicz. See the Changelog and vsftpd FAQ (frequently asked questions) for a list of common questions!
· After numerous requests, I now have a PayPal button for donations. If you use vsftpd, like it, and think it's worthy of a donation, then click on the Paypal button on the left of the page.
· ftp.freebsd.org switched to vsftpd.
· vsftpd tarballs are now GPG signed by me.
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