Re: web server for development
On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 02:29:51PM -0000, Dan Purgert wrote:
> SFTP (SSH) has basically zero to do with RFC959 FTP; and provided that a
> target host already allows SSH logins, SFTP is quite likely already
> there. I'm actually surprised a hosting party would recommend RFC-959
> FTP at all (SSL or no); as it requires extra work to set up (FTP servers
> usually aren't part of "base" install images, they're
> insecure-by-default and take a bit of effort to secure, and so on).
I'm holding out hope that it wasn't really the hosting provider's
recommendation, but rather a lack of information on the part of the user,
that caused them to think FTP was the way to go.
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