While the web server can be used to quickly host and serve small files, an FTP server offers a better and reliable solution to host and serve larger-sized files. We can install an FTP server on Kali Linux using the apt-get install vsftpd command as shown in the following screenshot:

Once installed, we can edit the configuration as per our needs by modifying the /etc/vsftpd.conf file. Once the necessary configuration has been done, we can start the FTP server using the service vsftpd start command as shown in the following screenshot: