best FTP server for web server

[Sam Sharpe]

On 4 October 2010 20:36, Paul Cartwright <fedora at pcartwright.com> wrote:
> On Mon October 4 2010, Rick Stevens wrote:
>> Don't forget there is FTP-S (FTP over SSL).  vsftpd supports both FTP
>> and FTP-S.  Most reasonable FTP clients also support it (gftp,
>> kasablanca, etc.).
>
> what you mean is sftp.. for windows a great client is winscp. I used it for
> years, along with putty, which you can find anywhere, just google putty.exe .
> both programs use the secure port 22.

No... he means FTPS... like he said...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTPS

It is a perfectly valid way of securing FTP and given that chrooting
SFTP is not trivial for a lot of use-cases, whereas chrooting FTP is a
very well known operation, FTPS actually has some advantages over
SFTP.

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Sam