There are numerous ways to transfer files these days, the oldest and still very widely used method is FTP. FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol and was defined as early as 1971 in the very early days ...

What is SFTP? How does it differ from FTP? FTP (File Transport Protocol) was first invented in 1971 and was originally used to transfer files over NCP (Network Control Protocol), later versions were ...

Ernie Smith is a former contributor to BizTech, an old-school blogger who specializes in side projects, and a tech history nut who researches vintage operating systems for fun. The more distributed ...

The SSH protocol enables three major classes of remote server activities: a) command execution (including a login shell), b) network forwarding and manipulation, and c) file transfer. There may be ...

There are two major differences between Secure File Transfer Protocol and FTP. The first is that SFTP utilizes Secure Shell, or SSH, to encrypt all communications between the client and server.

The whole of modern networking is built upon an unreliable medium. Routing equipment has free license to discard, corrupt, reorder, or duplicate data which it forwards. The understanding of the IP ...

So I have a file server I regularly move files to and from. It's across the country. First the server was in Denver, now it's in Chicago. I'm in Nova Scotia (eastern Atlantic coast). For months I had ...