What would you recommend for a small business to provide ftp to clients?

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This question might not be your area of expertise, but what would you recommend that a small business use to provide FTP to clients? Each client should be able to have their own separate area that is protected from being viewed by other clients.

If I were to set something like that up, I would actually go to either a shared hosting site like Bluehost or Dreamhost, or where I host AskLeo! is on Storm On Demand, where you actually end up on a virtual dedicated server.

The reason I’m pointing those out is because the default installation you get of a website supports FTP and that FTP support can be configured on a per account basis.

You would have to manage the individual accounts that would be given access to the FTP, but that’s the approach that I would take any rate. Typically, especially for businesses and certainly for homes, if you are trying to run an FTP site from your own home or out of your home business, it’s typically a lot more trouble than it’s worth. And with hosting being relatively inexpensive these days, I mean, you can get a Dreamhost account for like seven bucks a month or something like that. That would potentially be a fairly quick and easy way to set something up.

You’ll have to become FTP literate and understand what it means to configure FTP accounts and just set up a minimal website, but that would be the direction I’d head off, for sure.