[Lvlug] Re: Good Win32 FTP Server?

[Randy Kramer]

On Thursday 15 September 2005 07:11 am, Brian Reichert wrote:
> Answer:
> "Because I'd rather have our customers using something made by a company
> who's in business to make software, not someone who makes software for fun
> in their spare time."

What I would consider doing is use a proprietary FTP product with the Windows 
server.  My concern is that if problems arise, and you're using a free/open 
source ftp server, your boss will just dig his heels in even harder over 
software made "for fun in their spare time".

On the other hand, if things go wrong with a pure proprietary solution, maybe 
he'll be more amenable to trying a pure free/open solution at that point.

And, I wouldn't give up on the free solution to soon in any case--any chance 
of installing a (free, i.e., old) 2nd (free, open source) ftp server in a 
"closet", divide the ftp load, and keep statistics--how many files served by 
each, how much downtime on each, ...

Or even (with the two computer approach), something that has the Windows FTP 
server handle all incoming requests, but with a (visible) failover for when 
something goes wrong:

"The Windows server cannot handle that request at this time, request being 
forwarded to the Debian (or whatever) (backup) server."

just some thoughts, but don't do anything to get yourself fired

regards,
Randy Kramer