421 Too many connections (8) from this IP

421 error too many connectionsIf you receive the following error:

421 Too many connections (8) from this IP

Your FTP program may be flooding the server with too many concurrent connections. Change the setting of how many connections the program makes in the background to 8 or less and a retry/reconnect time of 30 to 60 seconds.

We provide instructions on changing this in many popular FTP programs Here
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