Look, I am a total noob at webhosting :). I host game servers but I am looking at webhosting. Now I dont want a control panel, I just want to give out FTP access. How do I do this?
Thanks in advance.

Actually, it depends a lot on your needs and the environment you are running your server. Is it a Linux one?

Actually I would need it for windows and linux

Assuming you are using CentOS/RHEL or Fedora Linux you can just use VSFTPd to provide FTP to your customers.

# yum -y install vsftpd - Install VSFTPd
# chkconfig vsftpd on - Run it on startup
# service vsftpd start - Start it now

You will also want to ensure anonymous FTP is disabled, and lock user's in their home directories so they can't go snooping about elsewhere on the box.

You can do this very easily with VSFTPd on linux:

Edit your vsftpd.conf file (usually /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf or /etc/vsftpd.conf - I could be wrong though) and add "chroot_local_user=yes" to the bottom of the file without quotes.

Save and restart the service with:

# service vsftpd restart

Hope that points you in the right direction, on Linux at least!

Yes, Chris has been faster :) I was just about to recommend this solution, too.

To tell you frankly, I can't even imagine how to implement this on Windows ;\

Thanks guys! But what about windows? Is there a program or something?

Fireftp for firefox, use that!

Google Filezilla Server (can't post urls yet...)

Works great on windows servers and you can define a different path per user, and they won't be able to leave that path. Supports throttling, encrypting, compression, and it's free.

Hey thanks Maher :)