FTP Client ?
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WS Ftp, Cute Ftp and Filezilla are all very good. I've used all 3, but now stick to filezilla (free).
Im using filezilla and there is a 10 simultaneous max threads count, is there any other soft that can get 20 or more threads at once? thnaks
CuteFTP might. It's a more mature, commercial product. They should have all the necessary features.
> Im using filezilla and there is a 10 simultaneous max threads count,
> is there any other soft that can get 20 or more threads at once?
I don't understand what difference that would make?
Your upload bandwidth should be maxed-out however many uploads you do.
So doing twenty uploads one-by-one sequentially will take almost exactly
the same time as doing all twenty simultaneously. No?
> is there any other soft that can get 20 or more threads at once?
I don't understand what difference that would make?
Your upload bandwidth should be maxed-out however many uploads you do.
So doing twenty uploads one-by-one sequentially will take almost exactly
the same time as doing all twenty simultaneously. No?
Yeah, agreed. Most cases it would be true, unless OP has some kind of crazy speed internet, and crazy speed hard drives. I personally use 2 threads max. And I'm on 15Mbit connection.
It's not really about the bandwidth, it's about the file size and quantity. If you only can do 1 transfer at a time and have 10,000+ 15-45kb picture files, you're looking at an average of 1-2 transfers per second. That's 1-2 hours of transfers.
If you can do even 1 additional parallel transfer, you can do that in 45 minutes to an hour.
Regardless of your bandwidth, there will always be the time it takes to communicate with the server. That is gotten around by being able to do parallel uploads. You can be uploading a large file and multiple smaller files at the same time.
I use SecureFX for file transfers and have the bundle for SecureCRT for my console. There's a maximum of 8 parallel transfers at a time. They have put that in within the last few months, it use to be a single transfer. So, there's probably going to be more added in the future.
I don't really care about that though, I like being able to sync with my server and choose what types of files to transfer.
Thanks for the explanation.
I've uploaded 500-1000 php files a few times, and never noticed a decrease in time-taken by increasing the amount of simultaneous uploads. Mind you, I just usually set and forget. I'll pay more attention next time I try.
JFI, I found this thread about why there is a 8-10 limit:
FileZilla Forums • View topic - Raising the simultaneous upload limit
I've uploaded 500-1000 php files a few times, and never noticed a decrease in time-taken by increasing the amount of simultaneous uploads. Mind you, I just usually set and forget. I'll pay more attention next time I try.
JFI, I found this thread about why there is a 8-10 limit:
FileZilla Forums • View topic - Raising the simultaneous upload limit
^ That. When I have to do something like that though (e.g. Magento 10k files, 3K folders) I always compress locally, upload one file and then use Putty or something to decompress the same structure on the other end. Although I can see certain instances where threading would be useful.
> When I have to do something like that though I always compress locally, upload
> one file and then use Putty or something to decompress
Hey thanks for the tip. I usually compress and then use cpanel extraction tool. But if I do that, when my php editor loads the file via ftp, there are extra carriage returns on each line. So for stuff that I know I might have to edit later, I upload file by file.
Maybe if I extract with putty instead, I can go back to compressing everything.
> one file and then use Putty or something to decompress
Hey thanks for the tip. I usually compress and then use cpanel extraction tool. But if I do that, when my php editor loads the file via ftp, there are extra carriage returns on each line. So for stuff that I know I might have to edit later, I upload file by file.
Maybe if I extract with putty instead, I can go back to compressing everything.
File transfers that are tunneled through SSH for encryption, security. Basically secure FTP. Highly recommend using it. I had a problem a few years back where one of my servers got hit pretty hard w/ some malicious stuff. I'm blaming open FTP sessions and someone sniffing out my login / pass somehow....although I'm not 100% sure that's what it was.
Sure, np. I don't think you'll have that problem w/ using unzip in a Putty session. I never have anyways.