What is an FTP server?

What is FTP?

In fact, the popular saying that FTP is a data transfer protocol, is responsible for our computer data and server data exchange, for example, we will be made in our computer website program uploaded to the server on the need to use FTP tools, data from the computer to the server. Professional said, FTP (full name: File Transfer Protocol) is a TCP/IP network of two computers transfer files protocol, FTP is in the TCP/IP network and the Internet, one of the earliest protocols used, it belongs to the Network Protocol Group application layer. The FTP client can send commands to the server to download files, upload files, create or change directories on the server, and generally we will transmit the content of our computer and server data. In fact, the computer and the server is the same, but the server is installed on the server system, and server stability and quality requirements higher, because the server is generally placed in such as telecommunications and other computer rooms, 24 hours are turned on, so that we can always access the relevant information in the server.

　What is an FTP server?

Above we briefly introduce what the FTP is, but there is an FTP server concept you do not confuse it. We can install the FTP tool in the computer is responsible for the computer data transmission to the server, this is the server is called the FTP server, and our computer is called the client. Simply put, the FTP server is a server that stores files for users to upload or download files.

FTP is a 8-bit client-server protocol, can operate any type of file without further processing, may not have contact with the bad understanding, the following author gives everyone an FTP data transmission schematic diagram:

The principle of FTP data transmission