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2009-12-09 , 13:19
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#37
Originally Posted by sljonson View Post
Beause SSH isn't the most efficient when it come to transfer large amounts of information. FTP is designed to push large amounts of data down a pipeline.
IME both scp and rsync over SSH do pretty well on efficiency, have the advantage of supporting compression, and critically, encrypt the authentication step, which ftp does in plain text.

Originally Posted by awesome View Post
Maybe because not all of the hosting providers allow SSH. At least mine doesnt
Which is a fine reason for wanting an FTP client. Not so much for wanting an FTP server, unless your hosting is running on an N900.
 

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