FTPS

FTPS Alternatives

Weighing your options? Checkout these 5 alternatives that could help you accomplish your goal.

• Git Push

  Git is an open-source version control system that allows for better handling of projects. Thanks to how easy it is to learn and how fast its performance is it leaves behind other SCM tools like CVS, Perforce, ClearCase or Subversion

• WebDAV

  Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (or WebDav for short) is an extension a HTTP protocol that is used to share, edit and transfer files between users through a web servers. It is mostly utilized in a collaborative projects for versioning and revision tracking.

• FTP

  FTP, which stands for File Transfer Protocol, is a standard web protocol used for transferring files between client and server in a computer network. The first iteration of FTP was introduced by Abhay Bhushan in 1971. Currently used specification comes for October 1985.

• Rsync

  Rsync is a C-based tool that allows for synchronizing files between a computer unit and external storage units across multiple, networked, computers. Rsync is used usually for synchronizing file structure between two different systems. Rsync is licensed under GNU General Public License.

• SFTP

  Short File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) provides more security than a regular File Transfer Protocol (FTP) by utilizing Secure Shell. Unlike FTPS, SFTP supports SSH key authentication and only requires a single port (22 by default) to be opened to get through the firewall.