By Erik Small -

FTPPlanet.com’s parent company, Ipswitch, Inc., announced that it has reached the $1 million mark for charitable giving. It’s a fantastic achievement and a great outreach into the global community. Many of the contributions have helped serve young people, the poor, and homeless populations.
Read the full Boston Globe article.
“Some 100 charities have benefited from Ipswitch donations, Greene said, adding that the firm earmarks 5 percent of its annual profits for gift-giving. Most of the recipients are in Massachusetts and in Georgia, where the company has offices in Augusta and Atlanta.”…..

By Hugh Garber -

Lemme guess, you’re not fluent in the alphabet soup lingo of file transfer.
Well, the truth is its confusion as hell! We’ve got FTP, FTPS (also called SSL), and SFTP (also called SSH). But here is a great article on the Delphi300.com website that compares the differences between them.
Here’s the summary, but I definitely encourage you to check out the gory details….
* FTP — File Transfer Protocol. Popular and fast way of moving files between a client and a server. The problem with FTP is that it’s not secured by encryption, leaving files at risk of being compromised during transport.
* FTPS — File Transfer Protocol over SSL. FTPS is an encrypted flavor of the FTP protocol (kind of like how HTTPS is an encrypted flavor of HTTP).
* SFTP — SSH File Transfer Protocol. SFTP uses the Secure Shell (ie: SSH) protocol to encrypt all file transfer communications. SFTP is a bit more firewall friendly because it uses only 1 port and it’s also a bit more secure than FTPS. SFTP is gaining steam as the most preferred method of secure file transfer, particularly in infrastructures that favor unix but SFTP is quickly gaining steam in Windows environments as well.
Now go read the full article for more details!

By Erik Small -

What type of things are you accomplishing with FTP?
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