FTP
(File Transfer Protocol) is the simplest and most secure way to exchange
files over the Internet. Whether you know it or not, you most likely
use FTP all the time. The most common use for FTP is to download files
from the Internet. When downloading a file from the Internet you're
actually transferring the file to your computer from
another computer over the Internet. This is why the T (transfer) is
in FTP. You may not know where the computer is that the file is coming
from but you most likely know it's URL or Internet address.
Here
at Whatnott.com, we manage our very own FTP server. Which means, you
can upload files the same way as you download them. Upload is basically
the exact opposite from downloading a file, such that rather than transferring
a file from another computer over the Internet to your
own, you are transferring a file TO another computer
over the Internet.
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