Bulletproof FTP Server: inexpensive

Server Bulletproof FTP server, once the name is G6 FTP server, is a full-featured Windows platform FTP server software.

If your organization needs a simple FTP server for a Windows platform, you will have a lot of options. But if you're looking for a fully functional Windows platform FTP server for midrange to high-end users, you can take a good look at this product bulletproof FTP server. It does not incorporate other protocols such as Telnet or IRC into the server like some other FTP servers, and the author of the Bulletproof FTP server concentrates on the FTP service itself, implementing as many requests as possible for a user to an FTP server. Of course, the inclusion of more features in a software can improve the value of the software, but too many features that can be difficult to use if they are not compatible with a powerful interface. Fortunately, Bulletproof FTP serve is doing well in both ways.

You can download the beta version of this product on the home page of Bulletproof FTP server, The installation file includes a description file and some plug-ins a total of 2.33M, during the installation process you can choose whether to install various parts, the beta version of the use of 30 days, and the number of uploads and downloads for each FTP connection are limited.

You can access the server's main settings page from the Setup menu, the server organizes the various setup options in tree form, in addition to some typical FTP settings, also provides a lot of options for the behavior control of the server, for example, you can set whether to automatically delete the unfinished upload files, encrypt the password, Limit the number of concurrent connections to users and retry/lock/block behavior. In the Advanced settings option you can also modify the server's cache size, enable attack detection and prevent server transfers to the server (such as FLASHFXP clients use). There are also many options for customizing the content and format of log files. If your machine has more than one IP, you can also bind multiple IPs to the server.

Bulletproof FTP server controls user access through a standard user and user group model. You can simply create a new user, assign it a password, and an optional group of users. In the user settings interface, you can access various user-related parameters, specify the user's file access rights, disk quotas, and so on. You can also simply enable war to disable a user without modifying any user account parameters. Administrators can attach a text annotation to a user account for ease of administration, and can quickly see the user's latest connections and activities.

The Bulletproof FTP Server has powerful performance monitoring tools. By default, real-time server dynamics is displayed in the main window of the server, and you can also turn off this option by setting. You can also view the real-time dynamic of the server in several other places, the Hit-o-meter window can show the number of clicks on a file, the Statistics window displays the statistics of various traffic of the server. You can also view log files on the disk. In summary, Bulletproof FTP Server has enough tools to monitor its users and the server itself.

The Bulletproof FTP Server Event Manager is a thoughtful feature that allows an administrator to select predefined events and customize the server's event message. For example, you can select the "Onwelcomeuser," event and customize the welcome message when the user is logged in or select "Ontoomanyusers," to customize the prompts when too many users are connected. In addition to defining a hint, you can also define a specific sound or start an external program after a particular event occurs. However, you cannot add new event types, and events are global rather than user-scoped. The event Manager can automatically prompt the user when a particular event occurs without the administrator monitoring the server at any time.

Overall, the Bulletproof FTP Server features a powerful, intuitive interface. If you have to find fault, it is that its English help document syntax is worse, read it is easy to misunderstand. The price of this product is 34.95 U.S. dollars, and if you buy multiple licenses at the same time you can enjoy discounts. Its upgrade policy is to upgrade for free when the major version number is unchanged, and to enjoy a 50% discount when upgrading the major version number. While some of its features can be found on the free open source FTP server, its high availability and intuitive use of the interface will make you feel that the money you pay is worth it.

Advantages: Powerful features, high availability, intuitive use of the interface, acceptable price.

Disadvantage: Sometimes the interface refreshes a bit slowly, the English document is a bit rough.