An excellent free FTP program (FileZilla)

Member Name: stuff10

Product:	FileZilla
Date:	22/07/09 (45 review reads)
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Advantages: Free, quick, easy to use, small download

Disadvantages: Sometimes takes a little while to load

FileZilla is an FTP program that allows you to transfer files from your local machine onto a webserver (and vice-versa). It is used by website developers (like me) to upload their websites for the world to see.

FileZilla is free to use and can be downloaded from: http://filezilla-project.org/. The download is under 4mb so won't take long at all. Installation is quick and easy - simply follow the prompts!

When loaded, you will have to enter a few details about your web server in order to connect to it. These are just the usual (hostname, username and password) which your web host should have told you. Once you've added the details, click on Connect and FileZilla will connect to the server. You'll now see that the window is split up into 2 panes: on the left are the files stored on your computer, on the right are the files on the web server. To transfer files from one computer to another, simply select the files and drag them from pane to pane. FileZilla will warn you if you're about to overwrite any files, so make sure you take note of any messages you see!

Transfer times vary depending on your net connection and server speed, but overall I've found them to be pretty good. You can save as many website connections as you like, meaning you can connect to a server in a couple of clicks rather than typing the information in each time. Helpfully, you can also export your list of sites to use on another computer (File > Export).

That's about it really. FileZilla is a free FTP program that's invaluable to me, as I'd be lost without it! There are a couple of bugs I've noticed... it can sometimes take a long time to start-up and on one occasion it lost all my passwords, but that was quite a while ago now. For free, you can't really ask for much more!

Summary: It's free, so it's great!

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