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.

A Secure File Transfer Protocol session is similar to a File Transfer Protocol, or FTP, session, but with the added security of encryption. When you use SFTP to make a connection to a server that ...

Version 20.0 of the desktop tool for server management supports EC2 instances and S3 buckets. SSH keys can now be generated ...

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 ...