Hello,

My website is in demand for a host that offers unlimited simultaneous FTP users. See the website is dependent of FTP users and my current host only allows 1 user to be logged in at a time, another host I know only allows 9. Is there such a host crazy enough to offer this unlimited simultaneous FTP users?

Thanks,

You need more than 9 multiple ftp connections? ohhh!
There are some FTP hosts, like: reliableftphost.com

They allow unlimited simultaneous FTP connections. Not sure about the quality or price, check them out!

I can't help wondering... why?

Well I need users to be able to upload files to their account and then be able to download them. And every solution I've found whether it be flash or Java just doesn't cut it. So I settled on FTP accounts. Thats why.

What exactly are you looking to do though - why do you need people to be able to upload (+ what kind of file sizes are we talking about?), and why do they need to have separate user logins?

I'm not sure you'll find this kind of service on shared hosting - or at least, not with any quality/reliability. Most things can't be offered on an unlimited basis, and simultaneous FTP connections is definitely one of them.

I'm fairly sure there's a better way to do this, rather than FTP; if you want to give more details then maybe we can make some suggestions?

I worked on it long and hard and came up with another solution like you all suggested! Thanks!

Would be interested to know what you came up with in the end?

Lots of hosts offer unlimited ftp, doesn't it mean they are simultaneous?

Potentially... FTP could be limited in a number of other ways though (e.g. space, number of users), and in practice it's also very silly to configure the FTP server to accept unlimited simultaneous connections!

Take ProFTPD - you'd be spawning a new child process per connection, and this can easily be used in a DoS attack to kill the server... enough processes and it wouldn't be possible for any more to be created and the server would be completely overloaded (including anything else running on that same server - not just the FTP server/service).

So I'd advise that unlimited simultaneous connections (for anything) are best avoided; by hosting your site(s) on servers configured in this way you'll be waiting for them to go down

If there's another way (as in this case) then it's probably a better approach - although since the OP hasn't given much detail then I can't really comment on the relative merits in this case.