What's the best paid and free FTP clients for uploading to your website?
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www.filezilla.com
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It also looks great and has a really easy to use interface.
http://www.panic.com/transmit/
My favorite free client is FileZilla, it works on all operating systems and is also full featured minus the syncing.
Its not as pretty and intuitive as Transmit, but it will get the job done at no charge.
http://filezilla-project.org/
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• For Apple OS X I use Cyberduck
• For Windows I use Filezilla
Paid;
On both I highly recommend Dreamweaver's implementation of FTP, it is one of the best things that Dreamweaver does.
The way that Dreamweaver keeps track of the directory hierarchy on a per site/project basis is an awesome timesaver.
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M$I haven't had luck with Cyberduck it crashed several times and it looks like it had some trouble uploading many files at once.
And also CuteFTP Pro for the MAC doesn't work good at all.
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M$I've heard good things about FileZilla as well.
I recommend going to either tucows.com or download.com and find something that is freeware.
These are both Windows based clients. Not sure if you are a Mac user.
I use the command line in the Mac. Here is a quick tutorial on common commands
ftp -i hostname or IP address. (the -i option puts it into interactive mode, so it will automatically answer Yes when doing multiple uploads) example:
ftp -i ftp.somedomain.com OR ftp -i 172.23.67.7
dir or ls (will give you a directory listing)
cd directoryname (allows you to change directory)
i.e. cd images
cd .. (will go up in the directory)
mput * (upload all files)
mput image.jpg (upload 1 file)
(with this command you must make sure you are in the directory first where the actual files are located, before transmitting the files)
get * (retrieve all files)
get image.jpg
Its also good to set the mode of the transfer. Just type bin which stands for binary. If you transfer files using ASCII and your files are binary, then it will mess up your files.
Command line maybe a bit difficult depending on your level of technical capability. But its there already, freely available in Windows or Mac OS X.
If you don't like command line, then go for the something graphical.
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Cyberduck is the free and open-source FTP Mac App. Never got around to using it, but I hear it's good. At the very least, it's in the top 3, and it's free. :)
Fetch was the defacto standard for FTP on the Classic Mac (I still remember the running-dog icon.) :) More traditional in its layout and use, and also free for academics/students.
On the PC I still use the old WS-FTP at work. I probably shouldn't, coz I know it has some vulnerabilities that were never fixed by the makers. Free for personal/academic use though. CuteFTP is another free one I hear is good, but I never got around to trying.
The (paid) FTP program I really use at home is more than just an FTP program though, it's more of a complete internet explorer replacement. If you're sick of certain quirks in the way Windows Explorer works, want something a little quicker, more professional, and more configurable for your file management in general, I would recommend Directory Opus. Total Windows Explorer replacement (if you choose), capable of handling zip-files (and letting you browse zip archives as if they were folders), and an absolutely stunning FTP program ..your FTP site ends up looking like just another Explorer folder, and so you can do all your regular Windows Explorer operations on your FTP site: file renaming, batch renaming, copy, copy-newer, copy-with-resume, moving within the site with drag-and-drop, etc. ..I've used it for my website (UNIX) and accounts server at work (VAX/OpenVMS) ..works great with both of them and the strange conventions they have (Unix being totally case-sensitive, for example, and OpenVMS being totally not and having it's weird versioning system for files, ie: files of the form: name.extension;version-number
..oh yeah, some things that sold me on DOpus in the first place: I used to be an Amiga guy, and had DOpus for years on that, so I know they've had years of experience in this field. When I used Win98, this program would let me copy files from a CD/DVD and it would automatically remove the read-only flag. I can show file extensions, but when renaming the file-extension is never selected (*really* the way XP should behave.) When a big copy operation has failed, I can start it again and there's a "no to all" button so I don't have to click "no" 500 times, or click "yes to all" and start all over. (What the hell Microsoft, eh?)
http://www.gpsoft.com.au/ (Home of Directory Opus.)
http://www.panic.com/ (Home of Transmit and some other *really* stunning Mac Apps.)
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M$For webhost my advice is do not go for free one if the purpose of your web site is business. because Google yahoo or any search sites don't consider or rank those site hosted on free webhosts.
Also don't go for free domains as these sites will check for paid ones and the expiry date is too short the search engine spiders will not consider your site. Basically everybody creates a site for traffic so that the whole world sees ones site.
The one I recommend is this one
http://www.myfreeadboard.com/go/ah06
They charge ONLY $56 for both domain and webhosting for a year whereas most others charge almost twice that amount. And this is a one of top hosting sites.
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Thanks. I hope you give it a shot, it really is worth it. I do a lot of uploading for one of my sites and it is super fast, super easy, and you really can't beat it.
Filezilla all the way! It's the best and it's free/open-source!