Hi everybody, I am trying to find out whether the Ipswitch WS_FTP Server (or other FTP server for that matter) can provide some sort of redundancy that I will describe in a minute. I read all the features (http://www.ipswitch.com/products/ws_ftp-server/features.html) of this product but what I am interested to find was not immediately available (or at least I didn't see it). In one of my projects I need an FTP Server that will get files from an external source of data. This Server will be used by two independent systems that will gain access to the transferred files and will process them (the processing algorithms are different - that's why we need two different systems). Because we need a high rate of availability and reliability for these sets of data I thought that it will be nice to have the FTP Server software installed on two machines (an active one and a hot backup). First goes down, the other one becomes active and takes the role of storing the transferred files and providing them to the two systems that do the processing. From outside, the hot swap should be transparent (so the software would have to deal with a dynamic allocation of the IP address and be able to move across to the second system in case first one crashes). The external source of data would have to try to send the files to the exact same FTP site (identified by its IP address). Other features like mirroring between the two FTP servers (so that they can synchronize themselves) would be nice to have but I can implement them in a separate process. Also I can modify the processes that interpret the data to look for the current active FTP Server.
The Ipswitch WS_FTP Server has something called "Virtual Servers", but that sounds like something different. It also has "FTP Server Manager Application" but I don't really know what that does. Has anyone heard of any software that can handle my requests? Any help would be much appreciated. Regards, Eddie Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/wsftp_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
