Webmaster-Source » FTP https://www.webmaster-source.com Useful Resources For Webmasters Thu, 24 Aug 2017 02:01:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.42 Transmit 4: The Ultimate Mac FTP and S3 Client https://www.webmaster-source.com/2010/05/17/transmit-4-the-ultimate-mac-ftp-and-s3-client/ https://www.webmaster-source.com/2010/05/17/transmit-4-the-ultimate-mac-ftp-and-s3-client/#comments Mon, 17 May 2010 11:54:00 +0000 http://www.webmaster-source.com/?p=3320 Panic Inc has released version four of their popular Transmit FTP client. To simply call it an “FTP client,” though, doesn’t do the software justice. Really, it’s a file transfer application. It can interact with FTP and SFTP servers as well as Amazon S3, Apple iDisk, WebDAV servers, and Bonjour locations. Not only can Transmit move files between your computer and a remote server, but it can easily transfer data between servers.

The new version of Transmit boasts a cleaner interface, faster transfer speeds, “tear-off tabs,” syncing, Amazon CloudFront support and the ability to issue SSH commands (among other things).

Panic claims a 25x speed improvement on large uploads, as well as quicker downloads and list/delete queries. I haven’t tried to verify these numbers or anything, but Transmit is certainly fast. Very fast.

One new feature that really caught my attention is “Transmit Disks.” You can mount remote servers as disks on your desktop, and a menu bar item lets you easily mount/unmount them.

Anyway, Transmit 4 is an excellent FTP client. It’s well worth trying the free 7-day trial Panic offers. (The full version is $34.)

]]> https://www.webmaster-source.com/2010/05/17/transmit-4-the-ultimate-mac-ftp-and-s3-client/feed/ 6 Blogger to End FTP Publishing Support https://www.webmaster-source.com/2010/02/04/blogger-to-end-ftp-publishing-support/ https://www.webmaster-source.com/2010/02/04/blogger-to-end-ftp-publishing-support/#comments Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:12:10 +0000 http://www.webmaster-source.com/?p=2989 Blogger has announced that they will be discontinuing support for FTP publishing of their users’ blogs. They say that a mere 0.5% of Blogger users opt to have the static HTML files hosted on their own servers, as opposed to the Blog*Spot servers. The costs outweigh the return, and developer team wants to drop the legacy feature so they can move on to a more modern infrastructure, unhampered by a feature used primarily by the earliest Blogger sites.

Three years ago we launched Custom Domains to give users the simplicity of Blogger, the scalability of Google hosting, and the flexibility of hosting your blog at your own URL. Last year’s post discussed the advantages of custom domains over FTP and addressed a number of reasons users have continued to use FTP publishing. (If you’re interested in reading more about Custom Domains, our Help Center has a good overview of how to use them on your blog.) In evaluating the investment needed to continue supporting FTP, we have decided that we could not justify diverting further engineering resources away from building new features for all users.

FTP support goes dead on March 26th, 2010. If you’re part of that 0.5%, don’t panic! A migration tool will be released in late February, and a blog dedicated to helping people transition is now online.

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