Ftp - Use It And Benefit
May 9th, 2008

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What is FTP?

FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. It is the method that is used to transfer files from your computer to your web-space. If you can imagine that web-space is like an extra drive on your computer, then FTP is the equivalent of saving a file on your hard-disk, but instead you save it on your web-space

FTP was first invented in the UNIX world in order to move files from one computer to another. It consists of two pieces of software. One to send the information from a computer and another one to receive the information. It is now widely used to transfer files from a computer to web-space using an internet connection

Although it is not so necessary to understand at this point exactly how it does work, uploading a file can be understood as doing the exact opposite of downloading a file from the internet. So instead of downloading a file from the internet to your computer, it uploads a file from your computer to the internet

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