People still use FTP – No, that’s not a question, it’s a statement of fact.
Time after time at my last job I used to overhear co-workers using that most dreaded of acronyms: FTP (File Transfer Protocol). While this is useful for certain things, namely (er, maybe…?) local, non-scheduled file transfer, there are non-plain (a pun you might get later) alternatives that should be used in a business or security-oriented implementation. Those alternatives are SCP (Secure Copy Protocol) or SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol).
FTP, SFTP and SCP can help accomplish the same thing, which is to move files from here to there (or, based on relativity, from there to here) nice and quickly and over ethernet. There is one major difference between FTP and the other 2, though: FTP sends data in plain-text whereas SCP and SFTP use the SSH (Secure Shell) protocol for communication. Again, this is for security purposes, so when it comes to websites and transferring sensitive information, it is always better to err on the side of security.
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