What is File Tranfer Protocol (FTP) ?
FTP server is a server assigned to provide delivery service / exchange data to FTP client with FTP client must request (request) first to FTP server. The only method used by FTP is the standard authentication method, which requires the username and password to access the data on the FTP server.
Registered users (have a username and password) have full access to some directories and files in it so that the registered user can create, copy, move or even delete those directories.
For how it works, first FTP client must request connection to FTP server, if it is connected with FTP server then FTP client can do data exchange such as upload and download data.
Benefits of FTP
- We can exchange files between computers easily, although the file has a large size
- For website owners, with the FTP, they can backup their website easily
- We can indirect or implicit remote computer
- FTP provides reliable and efficient data transfer.
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