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Setting up an FTP server on Ubuntu 18.04 on AWS
Here is me documenting my journey as I set up a temporary FTP server for quick access before removing it at the end of the project.
The quick overview as to why I needed this article was to serve as a reminder for my future self on how to get this running quickly. So, recently I needed to run an FTP server quick and dirty because I needed to get a huge amount of files quickly to another party. Unfortunately, other storage solution wasn’t possible for this project, such as S3, so here we go…
Initially I thought it was an easy process, but there were some hiccups and I thought I document this down so future me would be able to access this information relatively quickly and set this up again in the blink of an eye.
Thanks for the many wonderful tutorials out in the wild, this should be a piece of cake, but there are some small little information that would be good to know once you’re setting this up.
So I’ve split this article into 2 sections. Section 1 is how to setup pure insecure FTP, next, the second part is FTP with TLS. All these will be done on Amazon AWS, feel free to use this on other cloud providers and let me know if you face some issues.
