There are two major differences between Secure File Transfer Protocol and FTP. The first is that SFTP utilizes Secure Shell, or SSH, to encrypt all communications between the client and server.

So I got a Synology Disk Station (model DS110j) since my wife wanted a server. I figured that the NAS was a good way to go, and Synology is well reviewed. One of the features of the diskstation is ...

I have a Linode running some older version of Fedora. I use SFTP for my file transfers from a Mac and it's either very slow or just doesn't connect consistently for transfers, with timeouts happening ...

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