Deploying SFTPGo as an AWS Transfer Family Alternative on Ubuntu

SFTPGo is an open-source file transfer server that exposes SFTP, FTP/S, and WebDAV with pluggable storage backends and a web admin UI, a self-hosted alternative to AWS Transfer Family without per-endpoint billing. This guide deploys SFTPGo using Docker Compose with Traefik handling automatic HTTPS for the admin UI, SQLite for the data provider, and protocol ports for SFTP, FTP/S, and WebDAV exposed on the host. By the end, you'll have SFTPGo accepting multi-protocol file transfers backed by either local disk or S3-compatible object storage.

Set Up the Directory Structure

1. Create the project directories:

$ mkdir -p ~/sftpgo/{data,config}

$ cd ~/sftpgo