FTP server in 2024? Well there are a couple of different reasons I think. One is because maybe you don't want to run an HTTP server. That's that's a reason. Uh, FTP is, you know, generally a little bit more of an, well, it's a different experience. If you've ever, if you've never been on an FTP server, it is the, you're, you're on the internet like you're it or you can be, I mean, you know, you could also just run an FTP server locally. I mean an FTP server classically would, it's on the internet, but instead of opening a web browser to access that site, you open an FTP client. What's an FTP client? Well, it's an application that talks FTP like that's all it is. Now the interesting thing about FTP is that it doesn't assume graphics at all. I mean it really, it assumes that you just want files, which interestingly is what a web server does. It's just instead of just giving you a file, a web server opens that file in your web browser and shows you the contents. Oftentimes it has to do a (39/53)
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