On Mar 10, 2011 12:27 PM, <peasthope@shaw.ca> wrote:
>
> Hello Jason,
>
> From: Jason Hsu <jhsu802701@jasonhsu.com>
> Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 09:56:32 -0600
> > What is your favorite alternative and why? Implicit FTPS? SFTP? FTP over SSH? Or something else?
>
> Another possibility is to firewall your LAN and use an ftp
> with satisfactory features. You will find that plain FTP
> and telnet are faster than any SSH. Significant if you use
> the connections several times a day. Of course, if the
> connection is rarely used, responsiveness is no concern.
>
>
Ok, my gut tells me that plain text protocols might be faster than encrypted ones. However, I have no data to back this up and have never noticed 'significant' differences between rsync and rsync+ssh. Do you have this benchmark or are you just going by gut reaction too?