CompleteFTP Server Features

CompleteFTP Server is available in three editions, Standard, Professional and Enterprise - compare editions here. Features are listed below.

• FTP and FTPS (FTP over SSL)

  FTP and FTPS

  CompleteFTP's FTP and FTPS implementations are fully standards compliant and support a broad range of options, including:
  • Firewall-friendly transfers (passive mode)
  • Explicit and implicit mode SSL/TLS
  • anonymous logins
  • non-ASCII character-sets
  • server and client SSL/TLS certificates
  • configurable listing formats
  • configurable SSL/TLS cipher-suites
  • selectable network interfaces (NIC's)
• SFTP (FTP over SSH) and SCP

  SFTP and SCP

  All editions of CompleteFTP support SFTP. SCP is supported in the Professional Edition. Password and public-key authentication (RSA and DSA) are supported. Multiple keys per user supported in Professional Edition.
• HTTP and HTTPS

  HTTP and HTTPS

  HTTP and HTTPS are supported in the Professional Edition. Both authenticated and unauthenticated access is available. HTTP uploads are supported.
• Multi-protocol gateway

  Multi-protocol gateway

  CompleteFTP (Enterprise Edition only) can act as a multi-protocol gateway for other servers. It can present any of its own protocols to a client, and translate them into a different protocol to talk to another server.
• SSH terminal logins

  Log into CompleteFTP as an SSH terminal

• Unlimited Windows and non-Windows users in all editions

  Unlimited Windows and non-Windows users

  Windows users may be added by simply selecting from a list of Windows users.
  Non-Windows users are users who have no corresponding Windows OS accounts; these are added using a wizard.
• Automatic Windows users

  Automatic Windows Users

  The Automatic Windows Users (AWU) feature allows the administrator to enable login of any Windows user without having to manually add the user to CompleteFTP's internal user list. In the Professional Edition (or better) logins may be restricted to one or more Active Directory (AD) or local groups.
• Authentication via an external database

  Authentication via an external database

  CompleteFTP (Professional Edition) may be configured to authenticate users from an external data-source, such as a database or a spreadsheet. Most data-sources with an OLE DB driver may be used.
• Virtual file system

  Virtual file system

  CompleteFTP's virtual file-system gives administrators full control over the file-system that is presented to clients. It includes support for user-mapped locations, such as 'My Documents', which takes a Windows user to their own Windows 'My Documents' folder. Folders may also be defined by UNC paths and may contain macros.
• Disk quotas and bandwidth limits

  Limit the disk-space and bandwidth of users

• File system permissions

  File system permissions

  For non-Windows users file-system access is controlled by CompleteFTP's own UNIX-like access control system.
  For Windows users access is determined by Windows' native file permissions. These permissions may be viewed from within the CompleteFTP Manager.
• Performance monitoring charts

  Charts for real-time performance monitoring

  Scrolling charts show real-time performance indicators such as logins, bytes uploaded/downloaded and auto-bans.
• Email notification

  E-mail Notifications

  CompleteFTP can be configured to send e-mail notifications when specific events occur. Events may be filtered using wildcards or regular expressions. Subjects and messages may incorporate macros.
• Process triggers

  Execute a process when a file-operation occurs

  Process triggers can be configured to automatically execute a program, a batch script, a Powershell script or an FTP script when a particular file-operation occurs.
• Allow/deny clients by IP or host-name

  Allow/deny clients by IP address or host-name

  Clients maybe allowed or denied access according to IP mask and host-name rules similar to those found in Apache. The editor includes a tester, which updates in real-time as rules are added and removed.

• Custom .NET extensions for authentication, filesystem and events
• Auto-banning

  Auto-banning

  Reduce the risk of brute-force attacks by banning client that repeatedly use incorrect usernames and/or passwords.
• Auditing of user actions

  Auditing of user actions

  CompleteFTP may be configured to keep a rolling-file auditing log, which records 'who-did-what' information for a configurable number of days.
• Remote administration

  Remote administration

  CompleteFTP's administration tool connects to the server through TCP/IP.
• FTPS client certificates

  FTPS client certificates

  FTPS clients may be required to present valid certificates upon connection. The Windows Certificate Store is used to determine whether or not a certificate should be trusted. An integrated certificate management tool is provided by CompleteFTP Manager.
• Support for file sizes > 4 GB
• SSL certificate generator

  SSL certificate generator

  CompleteFTP's SSL/TLS certificate generator may be used to create new self-signed certificates for the server. Certificates may also be imported and exported.
• Connection monitoring and control

  Real-time monitoring and control

  Client can be seen connecting and disconnecting in real-time. Connections may be terminated at will.
• SSH key generator included
• Compatible with all FTP, FTPS, SFTP, SSH, SCP and HTTP clients
• Supports password and publickey authentication for SFTP, and RSA and DSA keys
• Supported on 32- and 64-bit Windows
• Supports Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)