A FTP server does the heavy lifting of security, organization, and transfer control, while clients usually just take part in saving transferred files to a specified location on your hard drive. If you are really into business and plan on spending money on your FTP server, you'll want to focus on what kind of qualities and characteristics the software provides. . . .
A FTP server does the heavy lifting of security, organization, and transfer control, while clients usually just take part in saving transferred files to a specified location on your hard drive. If you are really into business and plan on spending money on your FTP server, you'll want to focus on what kind of qualities and characteristics the software provides.

First and foremost, look for security. You should be able to allow access to some files without compromising the security of the entire system.

Your operating system will affect your security needs. You can use almost any Win95/98/NT, Mac, Linux, and Unix machine as an FTP server. Conversely, any machine that supports TCP/IP and has an FTP client can access an FTP server.

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