Wing Gateway

Specifically designed for users of the Wing FTP Server, the Wing Gateway allows administrators to manage the load of their FTP servers efficiently and provides extra protection of the transferred data via reverse proxy.

Wing Gateway is installed as a Windows service and using it does not affect the performance of the server. In other words, clients who connect to the Wing FTP Server should have the same experience as if they were connecting to the servers directly. The Wing Gateway features support for all the protocols allowed by the Wing FTP Gateway, namely FTP, FTPS and SFTP, HTTP and HTTPS.

Managing gateways in Wing Gateway is possible via the Wing FTP Server dashboard. The gateway manager in the "Settings" area allows you to view a list of all the gateways and add new ones.

Whether we are talking about one or multiple FTP servers managed via the Wing FTP Server dashboard, the Wing Gateway comes in handy, due to its two modules: reverse proxy and load balancing.

The reverse proxy in Wing Gateway sits behind the firewall and directs all the clients to the appropriate backend servers. At the same time, it conceals the information about the backend servers (only the IP address of the proxy is visible), thus providing an additional layer of protection. And speaking of security, not to worry, as the data exchange between the gateway service and the Wing FTP Server application is encrypted.

The load balancing function in Wing Gateway makes it possible for administrators to distribute the workload between multiple FTP servers to prevent overloading. You can add or remove a new node without stopping the service. The gateway can meet the high availability requirement due to its "Failover" feature. The final purpose is to ensure the fastest response rate to the client.

Wing Gateway can handle hundreds of requests from clients and ensures secure data transfers for Wing FTP Server. It provides a failover node to ensure the continuous availability of the servers. Using and managing it is done via the Wing FTP Server’s dashboard, without you requiring another application.