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    What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows

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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller @Guest
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      @bobbb127 said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:

      This is an old thread, but I wanted to chime in here and suggest Titan FTP Server since it's somewhat unclear if the OP actually chose something. Titan supports SFTP (and many other protocols) and is affordable and stable. Been using it for years now without any problem

      How would something like that justify being one penny more than "free"? As a third party product trying to reproduce functionality that is both native to the OS and open source, it would need to pay me (literally) to be "affordable" in the context. Even at free, it would be pretty impossible to consider it a "good value."

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller @Guest
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        @bobbb127 said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:

        ... since it's somewhat unclear if the OP actually chose something.

        This was the quote: "None, use Linux where SFTP is native and built in and configured for you right out of the box, ready to go, for free. This is a silly question. People need to stop asking it." Seems pretty clear what was chosen.

        Now, in the time since then, OpenSSH (the same one used on Linux) has been integrated into Windows. So things have changed. Windows, if you already have it, running OpenSSH is just fine. Two years ago, it was not.

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          • dafyreD
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            @bobbb127 said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:

            This is an old thread, but I wanted to chime in here and suggest Titan FTP Server since it's somewhat unclear if the OP actually chose something. Titan supports SFTP (and many other protocols) and is affordable and stable. Been using it for years now without any problem

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            • jmooreJ
              jmoore @dafyre
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              @dafyre Oh I love your MTG reference!

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              • wirestyle22W
                wirestyle22
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                What reason is there to ever need to use SFTP? We use it here and I don't understand why when dropbox and nextcloud exist. Maybe I'm missing something

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                • coliverC
                  coliver @wirestyle22
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                  @wirestyle22 said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:

                  What reason is there to ever need to use SFTP? We use it here and I don't understand why when dropbox and nextcloud exist. Maybe I'm missing something

                  Isn't SFTP just SSH?

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                  • wirestyle22W
                    wirestyle22 @coliver
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                    @coliver said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:

                    @wirestyle22 said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:

                    What reason is there to ever need to use SFTP? We use it here and I don't understand why when dropbox and nextcloud exist. Maybe I'm missing something

                    Isn't SFTP just SSH?

                    Sorry, I mean specifically for file transfer via something like FileZilla. Seems super outdated.

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                    • coliverC
                      coliver @wirestyle22
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                      @wirestyle22 said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:

                      @coliver said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:

                      @wirestyle22 said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:

                      What reason is there to ever need to use SFTP? We use it here and I don't understand why when dropbox and nextcloud exist. Maybe I'm missing something

                      Isn't SFTP just SSH?

                      Sorry, I mean specifically for file transfer via something like FileZilla. Seems super outdated.

                      Ah, I guess it depends on the use case? I use SCP/SFTP regularly to move files back and forth between servers and my workstation if need be.

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                      • JaredBuschJ
                        JaredBusch
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                        I have clients that send and receive backend data via SFTP.

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                        • wirestyle22W
                          wirestyle22
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                          I guess my question is why use that specifically instead of something else? What benefit does it have?

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                          • coliverC
                            coliver @wirestyle22
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                            @wirestyle22 said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:

                            I guess my question is why use that specifically instead of something else? What benefit does it have?

                            Since it's just SSH it's installed on literally every Linux box in the world by default.

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                            • JaredBuschJ
                              JaredBusch @wirestyle22
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                              @wirestyle22 said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:

                              I guess my question is why use that specifically instead of something else? What benefit does it have?

                              It is poitn to point and does not need a third party service.. Drop box and the like are sync services with some sharing capabilities.

                              THey are not file transfer services.

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                              • wirestyle22W
                                wirestyle22
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                                I'd much rather use Nextcloud than SFTP personally, but that is for a few different reasons. We are almost entirely Windows here, even though @coliver made a good point. Also, I have to transfer files to people who have never used SFTP and generally don't get it. Installing a client and changing port numbers is beyond some of the people that require the data. It would be so much more conducive to just provide a link with a password and expiration date. Idk.

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                                • JaredBuschJ
                                  JaredBusch @wirestyle22
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                                  @wirestyle22 said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:

                                  Idk.

                                  Obviously.

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                                  • wirestyle22W
                                    wirestyle22 @JaredBusch
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                                    @jaredbusch said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:

                                    @wirestyle22 said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:

                                    Idk.

                                    Obviously.

                                    This isn't the time for foreplay Jared

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                                    • JaredBuschJ
                                      JaredBusch @wirestyle22
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                                      @wirestyle22 said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:

                                      @jaredbusch said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:

                                      @wirestyle22 said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:

                                      Idk.

                                      Obviously.

                                      This isn't the time for foreplay Jared

                                      You were clearly told the difference between those tools. Just because you cannot understand, does not invalidate the difference.

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                                      • wirestyle22W
                                        wirestyle22 @JaredBusch
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                                        @jaredbusch said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:

                                        @wirestyle22 said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:

                                        @jaredbusch said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:

                                        @wirestyle22 said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:

                                        Idk.

                                        Obviously.

                                        This isn't the time for foreplay Jared

                                        You were clearly told the difference between those tools. Just because you cannot understand, does not invalidate the difference.

                                        I understand the difference between the tools. I commented on why I would want to use Nextcloud over it for my specific use-case.

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                                        • mlnewsM
                                          mlnews @wirestyle22
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                                          @wirestyle22 said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:

                                          I guess my question is why use that specifically instead of something else? What benefit does it have?

                                          Universal, direct, secure.

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                                          • scottalanmillerS
                                            scottalanmiller @wirestyle22
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                                            @wirestyle22 said in What is the Best SFTP Server for Windows:

                                            I'd much rather use Nextcloud than SFTP personally, but that is for a few different reasons. We are almost entirely Windows here, even though @coliver made a good point. Also, I have to transfer files to people who have never used FTP and generally don't get it. Installing a client and changing port numbers is beyond some of the people that require the data. It would be so much more conducive to just provide a link with a password and expiration date. Idk.

                                            FTP is not related to SFTP. Totally different things.

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