Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP)

SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol) over SSH 2.0 (Secure Socket Shell) secures your data during the access and remote management of files on the server. As long as SSH remains enabled on our servers, you can use SFTP.

In order to access your server using SFTP, you must have an SFTP client. We use and recommend CuteFTP PRO, a commercial product, but here are a couple of free SFTP clients you might consider if you're being frugal:

Core FTP Lite

Core FTP Lite is a Windows FTP client that supports uploading/downloading/deletion of directories (folders) and files, browser integration, SFTP (or secure FTP), SSL/TLS, handling of file permissions, transfer bandwidth control, etc.

FileZilla Open Source FTP/SFTP Client

FileZilla is a free, open source FTP client for Windows distributed under the GNU General Public License. You can do the usual stuff, upload and download files, as well as resume uploads or downloads, works with firewalls, supports SFTP (Secure FTP) and SSL secured connections, handle queues of files to be uploaded/downloaded, etc.

Here are instructions for setting up CuteFTP Pro to access your server via SFTP. With slight modifications, these instructions should work with other SFTP clients:

1. In Site Manager select "SFTP/SSH2" from the "New" dropdown menu.

2. For "Label" enter whatever you want, for "Host Address" enter your domain name (i.e, yourdomain.com), and enter your user name and password. Click "Connect".

3. The first time you attempt to connect, you will get a popup that says, "The SSHY2 host key for this server was not found..." Just click "Yes" to continue.

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