Perhaps nothing has changed people so much as information. The more informed the population, the safer the country, and there can be any awareness, up to a warning about a coming disaster, etc. The main thing is that information not only has the ability to save lives, but also improve them. Imagine your present if books did not exist, as did writing. Yes, this is exactly the Stone Age. Fortunately, all this is just a fantasy of a dystopian lover, because we live in the 21st century - the information age, but all thanks to the merits of computers, including the famous FTP client. In this article we will analyze in detail what it is, where it is used and why it was created. This article is recommended for novice users of the Windows operating system.
What is an FTP client?
First you need to figure out what is information in the computer world. If you follow the definition, then when transferring any character, it will be transcoded into a hexadecimal calculus system, because you can store much more values in it than in the standard decimal for us. Its difference is that after 9 there are letters of the Latin alphabet, up to F, whose value is 16. Also, special keys are added to the information to understand where the beginning of the line, where its middle and end, and also due to which technology the signal is transmitted - it's the most important.
One of the best options for a data transfer protocol is FTP - File Transport Protocol, i.e. transport protocol for data. What is it for? If you pass a sequence of bits to a computer, how can it read them? That's why protocols are created for this, they conveniently and compactly transmit information, and then take it and again translate it into a more or less human form.
FTP clients are often used to create cloud storage, but exclusively for home use, because third parties can easily connect to the data transfer process. Companies use the version with the encoder and data decoder - FTPS.
In the next section of the article, we will tell you in detail how to install the transport protocol client on your personal computer running Windows 10.
How to create your own FTP client for Windows 10
For starters, we will need to upgrade to the latest version of Windows 10. Also, if you haven’t activated it, you will first need to do it at last, because without this some parameters can be disabled in the operating system, which can make FTP work very difficult. If all is well, then read the instructions below.
FTP Installation Instructions:
- Activate your browser and download the FileZilla program from the official website of the developer. We do not recommend doing this from various mirrors.
- After downloading, start the process of installing the application on a computer, preferably on drive C.
- Activate the program. Now it remains to connect to a specific server, for this, first set the host name, your username, your password, and also the port, if required. If you want to create your own FTP server, we recommend you buy a cloud machine, and run it on it already, because the server needs constant access to the Internet.
Installation on older versions of the OS
If you are wondering if the FTP client will work with XP, we say right away that yes. The FileZilla program itself is provided with fully open source code, which made it possible for ordinary users to fine-tune it for different operating systems, including Windows XP. If the latest version does not work for you, we recommend either updating the operating system or finding a version of FileZilla around the year 2009, then it will definitely work.
Finally
We hope that after reading this article you understand what an FTP client is. If you are a beginner programmer, and you have friends by vocation, we recommend that you build your own FTP server, because through it you can transfer files anywhere very quickly and conveniently.