The filezilla server is not available as a package in any of my distros. I will have to download it from the website and do an install outside the package system. I will do it just to see what it is like.
I have settled on vsftpd for my server. I have it going in MX, Void, Devuan, and Debian. . The package install set up the daemon autostart , except in Void, where I had to use runit to autostart the daemon.
It does mget * properly, so I am happy with that. It has a config file /etc/vsftpd.conf. The default seems fine for home use.
I use the plain old ftp as my client. But I do have filezilla in one distro, and I can verify it works fine with vsftpd as the server.
So , If you wanted a ftp server, I dont think I would bother with filezilla… just use vsftpd and all the setup will be done for you. You dont need a gui for the server.
Regards
Neville