and for the record cagle: it's a fact. swooh has never crashed. it's an extremely stable computer running on an extremely stable operating system. it's more than geared to serve thousands of people... it's the connection that screws it over sometimes. the ISP's going out of business (they've already announced that), and so the times that we don't take it offline (i can only assume those are the times that it's not up that you're referring to) occasionally the ISP will go offline for a period, or will generally screw around with swooh's link.
EDIT: SmartFTP, eh? yeah that's what i'm using at the moment. one thing that you may need to try doing is setting your connection timeout a little longer. to establish the initial connection usually takes a while because we had problems with the welcome banner, so we disabled it, so FTP client's still wait for the welcome message... but eventually the server sends a timeout, and carries on with its commucation with your client. once you get past that initial stage, you should be good to go. i use swooh a lot more often than you do, i can assure you, and it's rare that i can't access it through FTP.
