Which is fast FTP or SSH ?

[pankajit09]

I want to know which is fast -->

FTP or SSH ?

Is there any better alternative ?

[Motoma]

I want to know which is fast -->

FTP or SSH ?

Is there any better alternative ?

It depends on what you are trying to do.
What are you trying to do? File sharing? Uploading? Remote shell? X11 Forwarding?
Please elaborate.

[pankajit09]

I want to upload and download some files from a remote machine.

[Motoma]

I want to upload and download some files from a remote machine.

How remote? Is it the local LAN?

[combas]

Basically FTP will be faster no matter what, if you are only trying to trasfer a file to another computer.

FTP stands for file transfer protocol

SSH stands for secure shell (note the security)

Security is great, but it slows down the transaction, very slightly probably not even noticeable.

[Motoma]

Basically FTP will be faster no matter what, if you are only trying to trasfer a file to another computer.

FTP stands for file transfer protocol

SSH stands for secure shell (note the security)

Security is great, but it slows down the transaction, very slightly probably not even noticeable.

Welcome to The Scripts combas! Thanks for your response.
I agree entirely with your accurate summary of FTP and SSH, however, in addressing the second part of the question, there are a lot of other, quicker alternatives.
Samba can be used if the computers are on the same network. AFP is another protocol which is quicker than FTP. And if you want to get into really quick-and-dirty solutions, piping files through nc is going to be the quickest, dirtiest technique of all.

[pankajit09]

How remote? Is it the local LAN?

No its not the local LAN.

Its the distance of India and US .

[hatemj]

You can use Secured FTP (SFTP ) instead of FTP.it is available in the net and you can download it. Some packadges include both SSH and SFTP.

With my regards

[winnie]

The answer is: both :) Use FTP to upload a Zip and SSH to unzip it there. If you don't have ssh connectivity you may use ZipDeploy.

[Motoma]

Welcome to theScripts winnie.
Please refrain from placing commercial software advertisements in our message boards.

[ghostdog74]

whatever it is, FTP or SSH, it also depends on the speed of your network connections.

[pankajit09]

Welcome to The Scripts combas! Thanks for your response.
I agree entirely with your accurate summary of FTP and SSH, however, in addressing the second part of the question, there are a lot of other, quicker alternatives.
Samba can be used if the computers are on the same network. AFP is another protocol which is quicker than FTP. And if you want to get into really quick-and-dirty solutions, piping files through nc is going to be the quickest, dirtiest technique of all.

Can you tell me more about AFP and piping files through nc ?

[Motoma]

Can you tell me more about AFP and piping files through nc ?

AFP is Apple's proprietary network sharing. It works quite well, and there are utilities to use it on both Windows and Linux.

nc is the tool netcat. It is a very handy thing to know how to use.
On your server you would:

$ nc -l 4999 | df of=filename.ext

and on the client you would

$ dd if=filename.ext | nc server.com 4999

Be careful with this technique, as It is quite insecure. Anyone can send data between when you open the port and when the first connection closes.

[pankajit09]

AFP is Apple's proprietary network sharing. It works quite well, and there are utilities to use it on both Windows and Linux.

Is AFP available in Debian ?

nc is the tool netcat. It is a very handy thing to know how to use.
On your server you would:

$ nc -l 4999 | df of=filename.ext

and on the client you would

$ dd if=filename.ext | nc server.com 4999

Be careful with this technique, as It is quite insecure. Anyone can send data between when you open the port and when the first connection closes.

That means if there is a file transfer going on between two machines through a port and if a third machine also does some transfer through the same port then the file might get corrupt ?

[Motoma]

Is AFP available in Debian ?

Dunno. Google it.

That means if there is a file transfer going on between two machines through a port and if a third machine also does some transfer through the same port then the file might get corrupt ?

No, it means if someone connects to the port before you, they could send anything and have it end up in that file.
Or, if they were watching your traffic, they could inject their own data into it.