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Posted by Damian Sefton
Damian Sefton
7,198 Points

How to move away from FTP?

I work in a small team who are not that technically experienced. We currently update our sites by FTP but I think there are smarter ways to deploy. Any suggestions on where to start?

4 Answers

Ron McCranie
Ron McCranie
7,837 Points
Ron McCranie
Ron McCranie
7,837 Points

FTP is probably the most common method to move files for less experienced users. It's easy to setup and pretty reliable. I prefer using SFTP due to added security. The only thing you would have to do is update the application you use to try SFTP as the protocol, change the port to 22 (typically).

There are other ways like Webdav and Git. If you have the appropriate access to the remote server you could install a Git repository on the server and push to that remote repository when you're code is at a releasable state. This assumes you're already using Git as your version control. If you're not using any version control you should look into it.

Erik Sayce
Erik Sayce
4,704 Points
Erik Sayce
Erik Sayce
4,704 Points

Other than looking into a Content Management System like Wordpress, FTP would be my recommendation. After you get your choice FTP client setup it's usually just dragging and dropping your files to their appropriate folders. Doesn't get much better than that!!

Damian Sefton
Damian Sefton
7,198 Points
Damian Sefton
Damian Sefton
7,198 Points

I would love to be using Git (or any version control) but the idea of trying to explain to my boss...

Sander de Wijs
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Sander de Wijs
Courses Plus Student 22,267 Points
Sander de Wijs
Sander de Wijs
Courses Plus Student 22,267 Points

You should definitely try to convince your boss. Tommy Morgan made some solid arguments in the Git course about the advantages.

You say you work in a small team with no FTP experience. Does that mean the wrong stuff gets overwritten/moved via FTP with no link to whoever did it? That's a nice argument to switch to Git :)