When it comes to file transfer software, I have been using WinSCP for the past years. But there have been other applications that I looked at and evaluated. Cyberduck is one of them. Back in March I published a guide on how to upload multiple documents to Google Docs from the desktop and Cyberduck was [...]

Categories: Open Source, Software, Windows

When the website data or web applications are added to your cloud based servers it becomes essential to set up remote connection with the virtual servers in the cloud. Connecting to a cloud enables you to transfer data from the local network of the organization or desktop to the “virtual world” of the cloud server. [...]

Categories: The Web, Web Development

I’m using WinSCP to transfer files from and to my web servers. The free sftp client offers everything that I could possibly need, and has never let me down. Not everyone likes WinSCP’s interface on the other hand. A viable alternative is the free ftp client FTP Rush. FTP Rush’s feature set looks fairly similar [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Many webmasters make use of a local test environment to test changes to their websites before they go live on the Internet. One part of the process is to transfer files to the ftp server whenever they have been modified and tested sufficiently. While it is possible to initiate those ftp transfers manually, it is [...]

Categories: Linux, Open Source, Software, Windows

Webmasters and web designers often work with local copies of their web projects to be able to test new features and designs safely without interrupting the delivery of the actual website to Internet visitors. They then upload the changed files to the web server so that the new contents are shown and delivered to everyone. [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

The developer of WinSCP, the popular SFTP and SC client for Windows, has been updated by its developer. WinSCP can be used to securely copy files between a local computer system and a remote server. Many webmasters use it for instance to connect to and manage their websites and servers. WinSCP provides access to file [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Email is not the best option to transfer large files. One of the reasons why it is not are attachment limits that make the email servers reject emails that are larger than a specific size. Many users help themselves by uploading the attachments to file hosts first to only include the link to the file [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Whenever I need to use the ftp protocol to transfer files in Linux I always turn to one application: Gftp. Gftp is a GTK+ application that makes ftp as simple as it gets. Released under the GPL, Gftp has a lot of features (for an ftp client) and installs on most *NIX machines. The only [...]

Categories: Advice, Linux, Networks, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic

If you have a need for an ftp server, and you have a Linux machine on your network, then you need look no further than proftpd. The proftpd project came about to fill the need for a secure and reliable ftp server for the Linux operating system. Proftpd uses a single configuration file, so it’s [...]

Categories: Advice, Linux, Networks, Open Source, Server, Software, Tutorials Basic