FTP Disconnects

[perkbrian]

I understand that this is probably a problem on my side.

I am uploading/downloading files for phpbb3, 700 or so files at time with FileZilla

90% of the time the uploads will stop and i can no longer connect to my server at all, through a web browser or through ftp

I have set FileZilla to only use one connection and all that so its not a "too many connections" issue

I am just wondering if it IS actually a problem on my end, and what I can do about it

thanks

[Arkadij S]

Hi perkbrian,

Even if you have a limit on 1 connection set in your FTP-client, the server may still block your IP.
They thing is that once you upload/download a file, the connection keeps hanging. It's inactive but it is counted. Then, as far as FTP-clients are working in passive mode, another connection is established to a different port and the number of connections exceeds the limit. This especially happens when there are many files of a small size.

The same situation is likely to be taking place in your case. Therefore, I would recommend you to create an archive of those files and upload them to your server as one file. Having uploaded it, you will be able to extract them from the archive by means of cPanel file manager.

[perkbrian]

It turns out that that is exactly what was happening. I filed a ticket, and was helped to set up an sftp connection. it looks like solved my problem.

the solution you gave would have worked, but i was downloading files. I haven't looked at the cpanel file manager, so there may well be to do what you suggested in reverse.

anyways, thanks for the help