Fastest FTP Client?

Mac: Flow
Windows: FlashFXP

Note: I Haven't used FTP on windows in two years now...FlashFXP might be outdated.

I've found the two of them to be the best and easiest to use for my workflow.
 


roclafamilia said:
Mac: Flow
Windows: FlashFXP

Note: I Haven't used FTP on windows in two years now...FlashFXP might be outdated.

I've found the two of them to be the best and easiest to use for my workflow.
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FlashFXP is really slow compared to FileZilla if you are transferring many small files because it only allows 1 connection/transfer at a time.
 
jlknauff said:
Agreed!

Unless I'm mistaken, Fillzilla makes you download files, edit them locally, and then upload them. CuteFTP let's you work right on the server. Way better in my book!
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I don't see how this is possible. CuteFTP probably just downloads and uploads more transparently than FileZilla.

I use SFTPDrive (they call it ExpanDrive now) to mount a remote filesystem on a local Windows drive if I need to do lots of edits, and FTP'ing everything all the time is too much of a pain in the ass. Or I use vim from the shell.
 
Barefootsies said:
With CuteFTP, you can easily edit HTML/site(s) on the server with it's editor.

/2ct
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You can right click to View/Edit a file in FileZilla, too... and if you modify the file it prompts you whether or not it should upload it again.

All I'm saying is, CuteFTP probably just does that transparently without asking, since there's no way to natively edit the file with an external program like that. You are not directly editing a file on the remote system; the app just is doing things behind the scenes to make it seem like you are.
 
Supergeek said:
You can right click to View/Edit a file in FileZilla, too... and if you modify the file it prompts you whether or not it should upload it again.

All I'm saying is, CuteFTP probably just does that transparently without asking, since there's no way to natively edit the file with an external program like that. You are not directly editing a file on the remote system; the app just is doing things behind the scenes to make it seem like you are.
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Ah, I get what you are saying. My apologies.

I had misunderstood what you were getting at with the editor piece.
 
No worries.

As far as the OP is asking for the fastest FTP client... if you really need an industrial-strength solution, you could try running some form of Linux at home and script everything. But really, how fat is your home pipe, anyway? You can probably saturate your ISP connection before you run out of OS resources.
 
Icecube said:
This obviously isn't good and caused me problems in the past: there's a virus that searches for known ftp programs installed, sends the passwords somewhere and some software will replace all your files with some crappy js that distributes such virus...
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Exactly. I was looking at a themes site for the Thematic Wordpress framework about a month ago and a script popped on me from a .ru domain, walked right past AVG, shut down my firewall and ran some Java and in about 10 seconds it had installed about 150 Trojans and (unknown to me for a few days) rooted my box.

I spent a few hours cleaning everything up and things seemed fine all weekend only to have a client call me on Monday morning to tell me their site was spawning the same kind of script. Found out 8 domains on my server were infected and I could only surmise that they had pulled some cached login data out of Filezilla.

That and my ISP wrote me to tell me my home box had been sending Viagra email all weekend :rolleyes:

It wasn't a good start to the week.

Filezilla is great, just don't store your user names and passwords in it.
 
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