Proficiens
Managed SFTP

Managed SFTP, hosted in Sydney. Live in two minutes.

Set it up once.
Then forget it exists.

Your own SFTP service, running in minutes. Password or SSH-key accounts, per-account read, write and delete permissions, IP whitelisting, and an audit trail that records the lot. One dashboard, then silence.

From $15/month AUD · Australian-owned · Files never leave Australia

A partner dropping files off
$ sftp acme.svc4@sftphost001.proficiens.io
Connected.
sftp> put invoices-2026-09.csv
invoices-2026-09.csv      100%   4.2MB   1.9s
sftp> rm invoices-2026-09.csv
Permission denied.

That account can write, not delete — and every line above is a row in the audit trail, with the source IP.

Auditing

An audit trail nobody can edit

Every sign-in, transfer, permission change and deletion is recorded — who did it, when, and from which IP address. The database itself rejects any attempt to change one of those rows, including ours; the only thing that ever removes one is the scheduled purge once it passes your retention window. That is a database rule, not a promise in a policy document. Export the lot as CSV from the dashboard the moment an auditor asks.

The same session, from your dashboard
Time Account Event Outcome Source IP Detail
14:22:07 acme.svc4 LOGIN Success 203.0.113.41 publickey
14:22:09 acme.svc4 UPLOAD Success 203.0.113.41 invoices-2026-09.csv · 4.2 MB · 1.9s
14:22:14 acme.svc4 DELETE Failure 203.0.113.41 no delete permission

The refusal is a row too. What a partner tried and was stopped from doing is exactly what an auditor asks about.

  • Sign-ins and sign-outs, successful and failed
  • Uploads and downloads, with size and duration
  • Deletions, renames and new folders
  • Account, permission and whitelist changes
  • Source IP and authentication method on every row
  • CSV export, on every plan
Founding offer
— places remaining

The first 50 customers keep Standard pricing for life

Standard is $29 a month for 1 SFTP service and 10 GB. If you are one of the first fifty, that is what you pay for as long as you stay — through every price rise afterwards.

Start the 14-day trial and your place is held. No credit card to claim it, and no obligation to keep it.

Applies to the Standard plan · Held while your account stays open · Not transferable

In practice

Three arrangements, three accounts

Most of what people use this for is one of these. Each is a single account with the boxes ticked one way, set up once and left alone.

Every fortnight

The accountant collects payroll

They come and get the file themselves, so nobody emails a spreadsheet of salaries again. They can read what you put there and nothing else — they cannot leave a file behind, and they cannot remove the one they took.

Read · no write · no delete

Overnight, every night

A supplier drops a daily file

Their system connects, writes the file and disconnects. It can't list the directory to see what else is in there, and it can't retract last night's file once sent. Lock it to their server's address and a leaked password is worthless.

Write · no read · IP whitelisted

Once, then archived

A client hands over their data

Onboarding, a migration, or the end of a contract. Its own service, its own quota, its own accounts, deleted when the job is done — and the trail is the record of exactly what moved and when, if anyone asks later.

Own service · own quota · full trail

What you get

What a service gives you

All of it, on both plans. Nothing here is an add-on, and there is no tier where the auditing is the upsell.

Authentication

Passwords and SSH keys

Every account authenticates with a password or an SSH public key, whichever the other end can handle. Passwords are stored hashed; paste in a public key and that partner never needs one at all.

Permissions

Read, write and delete, per account

Grant each account exactly what it needs. A partner who only drops files off never gets to read what else is in there, and a collection account never gets delete.

Access control

IP whitelisting

Restrict a service to the addresses and ranges you actually trust, so a leaked credential is useless from anywhere else. One toggle cuts access entirely if something looks wrong.

Isolation

One service per relationship

Each service gets its own home directory, its own accounts and its own storage quota. Nothing crosses between them, so one client's files are never one misconfigured permission away from another's.

Quotas

Storage limits that are real

The quota is per service, not per account, and it is enforced on the filesystem itself — so a runaway upload stops instead of quietly becoming a bill. The dashboard shows what each service is using.

Privacy

We can't read your files

Our admin console manages services, accounts and plans. It has no file browser — support can see that a file moved, its name and its size, never its contents.

That is the short version. The features page goes through each of these properly, and pricing is three plans with no sales call.

Start

Infrastructure that does its job.
Boring by design.

Fourteen days free, no credit card. Create a service, point something at it, and judge it on what it does rather than on what this page says.

No credit card. No cron job wondering if the upload finished.