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August 06, 2008
Useful FTP Applications
Here's a great example of a very common use of FTP courtesy of Jared Holt of the Geek Inspired website.
"Just a few months ago, I was taking a short vacation down in Florida with my wife’s family. It was the first time our little nieces had ever been to the ocean, so I was sure to take lots and lots of pictures. Every evening, I would dump all of my pictures from my compact flash card onto my laptop.
I like to have several copies of all my important files. So, before turning in for the night, I would open up my favorite FTP program, connect to the FTP server running on my computer at home (600 miles away!), and transfer all of the precious photos I had taken that day. Indeed, FTP is a great tool that anyone with a broadband connection should use"
Jared also includes a great description of file transfer clients and servers.
But what I really like about this article are Jared's examples of common applications for FTP, such as:
"* Just about every webmaster uses FTP to transfer web pages, web application files, and images to their web server.
* Corporations use FTP servers to provide common files to their clients and branch offices.
* Friends use a collection of FTP servers to share photos, programs, and (Gasp!) the occasional mp3.
* I like to keep my favorite freeware accessible on my FTP so that I can use them no matter which computer I’m on.
One huge advantage to using FTP is that file sizes simply do not matter. In my opening example, I was uploading gigabytes of photos to my home computer. Try doing that with email… go on, I dare you"
Jared's last point is certainly an important one as well. Email simply isn't a practical way to share ginormous files.... The file size limitation of email (or the rules your system admin has put in place) is a key reason why millions and millions of people are using FTP (or encrypted SSL or SSH protocols) to move and share large files.
Posted by Hugh Garber at August 6, 2008 07:03 AM digg this add to del.icio.us add to My Web Furl this page
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