What about FTPS (not to be confused with SFTP)? You can use Filezilla Server which is a no-hassle setup and in my experience works great on Windows. It has a fu

What about FTPS (not to be confused with SFTP)? You can use Filezilla Server which is a no-hassle setup and in my experience works great on Windows. It has a full UI but can also use an XML file for configuration, just use /reload-config to pull in your XML changes. FTPS is also supported by a lot of clients including WinSCP which is extremely fast and great (WinSCP also supports SFTP) and Visual Studio's publish[0]. [0] http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/vs-2010-web-deployment http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/vs-2010-web-deployment PS - One problem we had with WinSCP is sometimes after it had done a transfer the WinSCP process wouldn't terminate. It would sit in memory forever. We had to build a script which goes through and kills every WinSCP process older than several hours.