How many of you use FTP everyday to work?

Well today the whole GoDaddy FTP server for EVERY website I manage was off.

Had to work through the webpage editor (a notepad provided by godaddy/cpanel), it kinda works, but I can't even use ctrl+s to save since it's in the browser :/

Um, absolutely never. I stopped using FTP in the '90s. Why would you?

@bahua it makes it easy to work, I keep my files on the server and I just download a few when I work, unless it's like a JS framework, then I have it all on my computer

BUT deploying the whole project to test it isn't that bad

@Charon92 I don't understand why is it asking for troubles, BUT I wish I could use SSH :/

Or just ssh to the server directly and edit the files. I would put them in a git repo though, and maintain a non-prod instance and branch for development.

@ZioCain

It's asking for trouble because FTP is monumentally insecure. Not because of a bug or exploit, mind you. But because it just wasn't designed with security in mind. Everything is transmitted in plain text. If your site ever gets hacked, I guarantee it will be because the server's fly is hanging open through port 21.

@bahua Yeah, I know that... but I actually tried multiple times to hack (brute force, actually) into any of my servers through FTP and didn't succeed.

Also, server hosting is just so cheap it doesn't even allow to disable ftp logins, BUT they require both username and password. I know it's minimum security, but it's something

@ZioCain don't try to bruteforce ftp, try to listen in on the traffic and read the username/password that way instead.

@Charon92 what's that you say? What's wrong with sftp?

@Charon92 There are two SFTPs: One is FTP partially over SSH and there is the "new" SFTP (not that New), which is over SSH, too, but has nothing to do with FTP.