What FTP server do people use, ideally free?

What FTP server have people found to be the best? I hear the built in one is not great and haven't been able to find the GUI editor for settings for it. Is there a free on out there that people really like, I hear good things about pure ftp. I'd like something that was easy to configure and manage ideally.

Is this a case of premature optimization?
Try the integrated ftp server within Mac OS X Server. See if it works. (If you're operating at the free level, that usually also means you don't want to add even the free stuff, as even the free stuff costs you time and effort. Sometimes the free stuff even costs vastly more than the commercial stuff, but that's another topic.)
Regardless of what tools you choose, this is ftp, which means it lacks all concepts of security and it stinks around any firewalls. And these limitations and exposures and difficulties are inherent to any ftp implementation. And to successfully use ftp, you can need to open swaths of ports on the client firewall or the server firewall, and (this is where maintaining ftp can get particularly "interesting") on intervening network firewalls.
Mac OS X Server (also) offers WebDAV, NFS, SMB, AFS and probably a few other protocols. These are managed with a combination of Server Admin and WorkGroup Manager and (though I tend to avoid it) can probably also be managed via Server Preferences.
Mac OS X Server and Mac OS X client also have clients for these protocols via the command line and via Finder.
I'm not sure how we got to a discussion of cloud storage providers here, either.

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