ftp Channels question

[omegaman66]

I switched ftp software. Was using ws_ftp lite now using filezilla.

Filezilla handles things differently. It allows for multiple open channels at one time with the limit set in it options.

Powweb limits me to having 5 open channels at one time.

I have the limit set for 2 right now as upload speed doesn't change as MY upload bandwidth just gets split.

My question is this. Do any of my pages (message board, chat, mysql database request etc) have anything at all to do with this number. If I were to use all five channels would other aspects of my website possible be compromised.

ex) at 10:05 and 26 seconds ftp using 3, two people on message board currently have 2 channels tied up as well, that makes five. If someone else did something that was to open up a channel would the be denied and recieve and error or be kicked out of the message board.

Just looking for any info on this subject as I found none on google, probably because I didn't know which terms to search under. ftp open channels for ex turned up unrelated stuff. Thanks!

[YvetteKuhns]

Search ftp connection limits or something like that. We don't call them channels.

Do any of my pages (message board, chat, mysql database request etc) have anything at all to do with this number.

Are they uploading anything?

FileZilla uploads files to your web server. Your visitors are connecting to your database on the mysql server. If they upload files through the browser, they are still uploading to your web server. I am not sure how that affects what you are doing. Hmm...

[omegaman66]

Thanks I will do some googling!

[omegaman66]

Found this!

Limiting connections conserves memory and protects against malicious attacks designed to overload your Web server with thousands of client requests.

I am guess anyone online has one of these connections to the server when they "request" a webpage. So the five per ftp connection probably has nothing to do with causing any problems if I did have all 5 open.

If anyone knows different speak up.

I do know if one ftp program has 5 open I can not use a different ftp program from the same computer as it won't connect at all.

[IanS]

I do know if one ftp program has 5 open I can not use a different ftp program from the same computer as it won't connect at all.
The limit is likely to be IP address based. My guess is even other computers on the same network with the same outward facing IP address would be stopped, even with a different username for FTP.

[YvetteKuhns]

The limit is likely to be IP address based. My guess is even other computers on the same network with the same outward facing IP address would be stopped, even with a different username for FTP.

I think that explained a problem someone described in another thread. He and others were trying to ftp to the same account and they were on the same network using different ftp logins.