| Secure Files - VSFTP |
Are your files safe? We live in a day when individuals, schools, small businesses, and corporations of all sizes can electronically document nearly every piece of communication. Once this communication is documented, it can travel nearly everywhere with file transfer protocol (FTP) - the language computers use to talk to each other in every corner of the World Wide Web. That's very good. But it can also be very bad when that communication needs to stay in the living rooms of the original communicators. Whether they're your trade secrets, your employees work files, Internet files for paying customers only, or your personal files, they're just that. Yours. In order to keep them yours, we use VSFTP to keep your web site files secure. What's VSFTP? VSFTP is an FTP server not only known for its stability and performance, but also (and mainly) for its security. As a matter of fact, the letters stand for "very secure file transfer protocol." While the file transfer protocol enables one computer to talk to another over the Internet, this very secure file transfer protocol (VSFTP) enables them to confide in each other knowing they have the privacy they need. Just how secure is VSFTP? VSFTP was written by a genuine code auditor, someone who researches website vulnerability for a living. With security as his primary focus, Chris Evans made sure that VSFTP fixes major and fundamental design flaws present in other FTP and uses secure coding techniques to solve the problem of buffer overflows. VSFTP has a proven security track record and comes most recommended by many "techies" out there. What else does VSFTP have to offer? For "the many techies" out there, here are just a few of the benefits VSFTP has to offer:
Is VSFTP right for me? If security, stability, and performance are what you're looking for, then yes. The only reason you might not consider VSFTP is if they do not offer the configurability you need. Disclaimer: it offers the configurability for the vast majority of cases out there. Not every FTP client supports FTPS (FTP over SSL) but here are some that do:
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