How do you set up ftp for a website hosted on your own server? The server has Windows Server 2003. Can you use IIS or is there a better utility on the web?

you set it up in your IIS

when you enable IIS there should be an option for you to set up FTP too. and the folder should be under ur inetpub

just make sure your firewall is not blocking ftp port (default 21)

and my suggestion is if you want to keep your ftp up forever, don't use login, only post files that's not sensitive and take them offline when u done with it. the reason is that there are so many zombie computers in the world constantly looking for ftp server and try to crack your username password, if the username/pw is one of your user accounts, they can use that against you if you have remote access available on your server and intrude your system. there is a log file under your windows directory that keeps track who is trying to connect to your ftp. when i had mine up my log is always filled with connection request from around the world with login failure.

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Here you go:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/323384

You can download an FTP application, or install FireFTP, a plug-in for Firefox. Then you can connect to your server from there.