Battle of the FTP clients - two major releases

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Battle of the FTP clients - two major releases

August 26, 2006 in Software | Permalink

Screengrab_9 Just about everyone that uses broadband was given a free homepage when they signed up to the service. This homepage was designed for you to setup your own website but, quite frankly, how many people actually get around to designing and maintaining a website? With up to 150MB of free space, this homepage could be used for something much more productive, such as backup and storage for important files and information.

Before the use of a content management system to manage web content, nearly everyone used an FTP client to manage the files on a remote server. An FTP client contained two windows - one containing the files on your computer, the other containing the contents of the remote server. You dragged and dropped files between your computer and server to update the contents. You can use an FTP client to backup and store files from your computer and then access those files from any remote location.

Within the last month, two of the most popular FTP clients have had a major refresh. CuteFTP 8.0 and WS_FTP 2007 have been launched. You can decide which FTP client you'll use to maintain your homepage/server. However, the choice is not limited to commercial FTP clients. There a wide range of powerful freeware alternatives such as SmartFTP, FileZilla and CoreFTP. Another option is our free full commercial download, Directory Opus 6, which has extensive FTP support. Go on, check them out.