SSH to post to your website

Just a general suggestion - I saw some conversation about FTP in another forum and thought I'd share this. If your host allows, you need to know about SSH!
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You should REALLY see if your web host allows SSH. SSH is kind of like a secure FTP. All traffic in FTP, including your PASSWORD(!), is plain text transfer. If someone sniffs you - boom - there's your website on a platter.
Also, if you can, you might consider using the command line. If you use Linux or BSD, it's a little scary at first, but really, all an FTP program does is make a pretty GUI that sends the same get and put commands. scp is the "secure copy" utility.

GUI SSH programs are available for Windows, one is here: http://winscp.vse.cz/eng/ and another is the 6.5 version of WS_FTP: http://www.ipswitch.com/Products/WS_FTP/index.html

Definitely use SSH if you can!

Good luck,

Cheers bro, i just downloaded it then. I never knew normal FTP was so insecure :eek:

I'm glad! The reason SSH hasn't become more mainstream, if you ask me, is because Windows is FTP friendly - go ahead and type FTP at the command line, if you know the Unix shell commands (once again, primarily get, put, and chmod), you can do it right through the Windows command line!
But no such luck with SSH. You must download a third party utility to use SSH in a Windows environment.
Spread the word. Smart sites, like sourceforge, won't even let you telnet or FTP into their sites.