Fastream NETFile FTP/Web Server Review

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Secure, ultra-fast FTP server and robust multi-threaded Web server for Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista, featuring XML-based GUI remote 2-level administration scheme, CGI/ISAPI, separate upload/download speed limits, storage quotas, dynamic DNS, and compression. The easiest NT-based server!

Features of 8.2.5
FTP and HTTP thread design fixed
Web server can now open 1000 connections/s on P4

Features of 8.2
FTP server DoS vulnerability fixed
New HTML layout with customizable font colors and size in folder listing
HTTP file manager now supports UTF-8 (Unicode)
Digest auth strenghened against DoS attack

Features of 8.1
Trial period reset in this version so that old trial users can retry
Multiple GUIs can be opened on the same computer for multi server monitoring
HTTP/1.1 digest secure authentication implemented
FTP QUIT/ABOR bug fixed
HTTP cookie bug has been fixed

Classic Features of NETFile FTP/Web Server
FXP-enabled FTP and thread-pooled multi-threaded HTTP 1.1 server fulfilling 100Mbps Ethernet (observed on AMD Athlon XP 2000+ and Windows® XP and 2003) with 4000 max. concurrent users for each server port
Built-in Dynamic DNS (dyndns.org & no-ip.com) IP updater
Country/domain/IP-address filter keeps intruders away
CGI/1.1 (Common Gateway Interface) and ISAPI/6.0 (MS Internet Server API) implementation with support for PHP and other script interpreters as well as pure CGI executables and ISAPI DLLsDisk storage quotas (per user/group; in both FTP and HTTP)
FTP server complies to RFCs 959, 1579, 2389, mlst, ftpmd5 with optional FXP disabling for extra security and anti-hammering for FTP hack prevention
Bandwidth limits for web domains at user granularity with separate settings for upload and download
Virtual File System (VFS) feature for serving all network drives from a single IP and mapping out-of-root folders automatically and easily
Multiple admin users with different levels of delegated permissions to administrate web domains and FTP users

New Features of 8.3
- User import/export to/from FTP/HTTP groups implemented
- CGI API fixed & optimized tested to run PHPbb and Coppermine as well as PHPMyAdmin
- HTTP/1.1 digest auth bug fixed
- Normal admin user bug fixed in GUI
- Faster execution (up to 1000 HTTP connections/sec with an average P4 single core processor!) due to compiler upgrade!

Intel Pentium processor

Please contact Fastream NETFile FTP/Web Server publisher, Fastream Technologies if you have questions or issues regarding this product.

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