1. A method for providing managed file transfer to a plurality of servers, the method comprising: receiving, at one or more computer systems hosting an application server, a configuration file; instantiating, with one or more processors associated with the one or more computer systems, a software load balancer based on the configuration file; receiving, at the one or more computer systems, a plurality of managed files transfer requests; and distributing, with one or more processors associated with the one or more computer systems, each of the plurality of transfers between the plurality of servers and one or more clients among the plurality of servers using the software load balancer, the configuration file comprising a protocol specification indicating a type of the plurality of managed file transfer requests to be managed by the software load balancer.