What is FTP? See how File Transfer Protocol moves website files, how an FTP client works, and why SFTP is the safer option.

You can use Mozilla Firefox to connect to FTP sites as easily as you would browse your favorite websites. You might visit an FTP site to download free software for ...

FTP isn’t exactly cutting-edge technology. These days, if you control both ends of a connection, you’re probably using scp, SFTP, rsync, or something even fancier. But FTP refuses to die, especially ...

Editor's Note: Adam Bertram originally wrote this article and Brien Posey has expanded it. Transferring files via FTP is one of those tasks every sysadmin has done at least once in their career. FTP ...

Running a public FTP site securely can be difficult. Taking full advantage of the security features supported by your FTP server application of choice can be a chore, and even then there's a good ...

A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium, a twice-weekly newsletter that hunts for the end of the long tail. Here’s a small piece of news you may have missed while you were trying to ...

The importance of automating processes can’t be overestimated. Most things start out as a manual procedure until you work out exactly how things should happen, but many times they stay that way ...