When Should You Use FTP?
Written on 12:59 by Ahmet Emir
The association at your San Francisco appointment needs a 50MB book emailed to them appropriate away. What do
you do? Best email servers would adios the email because they accept admeasurement limits. Even if
there’s no admeasurement absolute on the server, it still would booty a while to accelerate this big book to SF. FTP
to the rescue!
If you charge to accord accession a ample book or you charge to get a ample book from someone, FTP is a
nice choice. Smaller files (less than 5MB) can aloof be beatific via email if you accept the bandwidth
of DSL or a cable modem. However, best ISPs don’t acquiesce files beyond again 5MB to be emailed,
so FTP is an advantage you should accede if you are in charge of sending and accepting ample files.
(Who isn’t these days?) To use FTP, you will charge to set up an FTP server on the Internet so that
the files can be shared.
Besides, FTP is faster than email, which is accession acumen to use FTP for sending or receiving
large files. In addition, because it uses TCP and is connection-oriented, if the affair dies, FTP
can sometimes alpha up area it larboard off. Try that with your email client!
If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to our feed