Web Hosting Talk : Web Hosting Main Forums : Dedicated Server : Anonymous FTP server keeps crashing

[Floid]

The anonymous FTP server of my RaQ4 always is going offline again within hours, I have to restart it via the control pannel daily. I have upgraded from a Raq3 to a Raq4 (also different machine, not only upgraded the OS), and on the RaQ3 the same thing happened, but not that often. How can I solve this issue? Is this maybe caused because I don't have a dedicated IP for the anonymous FTP server (I'm sharing one IP for about 8 sites, one of the sites is a high traffic site)?

[-Edward-]

Anon FTP runs best on a static IP of it's own. Also check your log's around the time it crashes and see what is being uploaded.

[Floid]

Thanks for your help, but uploads are disabled on the server.
Were are the FTP logs stored?

[huck]

Does the server crash or stop responding?

By crash, I mean that the proftpd process acutally stops.

By stop responding, I mean that proftp process is still running but no request are taken.


For a high volume FTP system, I suggest getting a dedicated IP and installing something like secureFTP, serve-u ftpd, or new ftpd daemons. I find the latter works better on a raq.