On 29 January 2016 at 14:07, steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
OK, they want a GUI, Webmin's a gui. There will be overhead, *BUT* what overhead?
Memory, basically. For webmin I need Apache and that isn't needed otherwise.
It's not a huge issue, but logically it shouldn't be needed. A tool that understands (eg) vsFTP config files and manages them remotely via SSH ought not be too complicated and would have no overhead! Not that I am volunteering to write one...
Secondly, do you REALLY want an FTP server?
No!
But then it's not my choice. This is part of the reason why there'll be nothing else on that server, although in reality the files are just CSV data files which aren't confidential (or interesting outside the application) so it's not a huge issue.
SFTP is better (secure FTP), but to be secure, I think most people would use SCP (Secure CoPy -= cp via SSH (Secure SHell))
Except where "most people" are Windows users...
SFTP is fine as FileZilla supports it although I don't get to mandate that.
I have vsftp installed.
I don't think I've used vsFTP. I have used PureFTP in the past which I'd expect to be just as secure, but I don't have a preference.
Mark