FTP Worldwide is the poor man’s FTP service and may attract uneducated small businesses with their comparatively low pricing. But, their plans from $10 to $60 per month have nothing to offer a potential customer that could not be purchased from any web hosting service for between $2 and $5 per month.
While Sharetru's plans start at $50 per month, those plans include far more in the area of functionality and security than what is offered by FTP Worldwide at their top end $150 price point. With Sharetru you are truly getting secure, custom developed applications and an expert managed file thansfer solution at a fair price.
Intellectual Property
FTP Worldwide claims to have been “built from the ground up" for this purpose. In reality, FTP Worldwide has built nothing itself and owns no intellectual property. They license a web site hosting control panel called H-Sphere and they market it as something it is not – an FTP solution. They lease their physical servers from a web hosting service that happens to be an H-Sphere reseller.
Long before FTP Worldwide came into existence in 2005, Sharetru had already created its own highly-specialized platform built with its own intellectual property. Here are some further comparisons between these two FTP hosting providers proving that you clearly get what you pay for:
Infrastructure
| Sharetru |
FTP Worldwide |
Firewalls – Dedicated.
Servers – Virtual machines (VMware).
Storage – VMware Datastore clusters.
Fault Tolerance – Automatic failover in the event of any hardware failure. |
Firewalls – None.
Servers – Physical machines.
Storage – Hard drives in physical servers.
Fault Tolerance – None. Single point of failure on each physical server. |
Software Platform
| Sharetru |
FTP Worldwide |
Architecture – Custom design.
OS – Custom build.
Server Applications – Custom developed.
Web File Transfer – Proprietary Web App.
Updates – Always patched.
Enhancements – Monthly. |
Architecture – H-Sphere “cluster”.
OS – As per H-Sphere.
Server Applications – Fixed by H-Sphere.
Web File Transfer – Licensed Java FTP Client.
Updates – No patches since 2013.
Enhancements – None since 2007. |
Security
| Sharetru |
FTP Worldwide |
Hacker Blacklist – Yes. Proprietary.
Limit Access by Protocol – Yes. Proprietary.
Limit Access by Country – Yes. Proprietary.
Limit each User by IP – Yes. Proprietary.
SSL Ciphers – Strongest possible. |
Hacker Blacklist – None.
Limit Access by Protocol – No.
Limit Access by Country – No.
Limit each user by IP – No.
SSL Ciphers – Weak and outdated. |
This comparison between Sharetru and FTP Worldwide was composed just before discovering a Better Business Bureau warning that "FTP Worldwide is believed to be out of business". We knew that the founder had sold out to an employee in 2012, but apparently the company is now on its third principal in the last three years and their future is unclear.
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