Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests
Jo Rhett
jrhett at netconsonance.com
Fri Apr 24 06:26:00 UTC 2009
On Apr 22, 2009, at 7:42 AM, Joe Greco wrote:
> While HTTP remains popular as a way to interact with humans,
> especially if
> you want to try to do redirects, acknowledge license agreements,
> etc., FTP
> is the file transfer protocol of choice for basic file transfer
Speak for yourself. I haven't used FTP to transfer files in 10 years
now. About 7 years ago I turned off FTP support for all of our
webhosting clients, and forced them to use SFTP. 3 left, for a net
loss of $45/month. And we stopped having to deal with the massive
undertaking that supporting FTP properly chrooted and capable of
dealing with all parts of the multi-mount web platform required.
We've never looked back.
Ever once in a while I find someone who's offering a file I want only
via FTP, and I chide them and they fix it ;-)
--
Jo Rhett
Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source
and other randomness
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