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<p>ProFTPD grew out of the desire to have a secure and configurable FTP
server, and out of a significant admiration of the
<a href="http://httpd.apache.org/">Apache web server</a>.</p>

<p>When the Project began, the most commonly used server was wu-ftpd. While
wu-ftpd provides excellent performance and is generally a good product, it
lacks numerous features found in newer Win32 FTP servers and has a poor
security history. Many people, including the developers who work on ProFTPD,
had spent a great deal of time fixing bugs and hacking features into
wu-ftpd. Unfortunately, it quickly became clear that a complete redesign was
necessary in order to implement the configurability and features
desired.</p>

<p>In addition to wu-ftpd, there are a few of other FTP servers available
which are designed to be light-weight and secure at the expense of
configurability. For example, Troll FTP is an excellent FTP daemon which is
considerably more secure and less resource-intensive than wu-ftpd.
Unfortunately, while it is quite suitable for basic FTP services, it does
not offer the feature set required for more sophisticated FTP sites.</p>

<p>ProFTPD is not a hack based on any other server, it's an independent
source tree from the ground up. A number of <a href="sites.html">well known
and high traffic sites use ProFTPD.</a></p>


<h1>Contributors</h1>
<p>ProFTPD would not be where it is today without the contributions of
many people.</p>

<h2>Core Team (in alphabetical order)</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="http://horde.net/~jwm/">John Morrissey</a>: Developer, mod_ldap maintainer</li>
  <li><a href="http://www.amd.co.at/">Michael Renner</a></li>
  <li><a href="mailto:dr at proftpd dot org">Daniel Roesen</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://www.castaglia.org/proftpd/">TJ Saunders</a>: ProFTPD maintainer</li> 
</ul>

<h2>Retired Core Team Members</h2>
<ul>
  <li>Jesse Sipprell: ProFTPD creator</li>
  <li><a href="http://www.macgyver.org/">MacGyver</a>: ProFTPD maintainer</li>
  <li>Charles Seeger</li>
  <li><a href="mailto:aah at acm dot org">Andrew Houghton</a>: mod_sql maintainer</li>
  <li><a href="http://www.korenwolf.net/">Mark Lowes</a>: Documentation and Webhamster</li>
</ul>

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