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JudasX
Jan 30, 2008, 06:52 PM
hey all

i'm looking to use rapidweaver (and hopefully dreamweaver in the future) to start publishing my own web site for fellow students and family to enjoy. what is the best/most affordable ftp hosting client available?

cheers,
JX



angelwatt
Jan 30, 2008, 07:06 PM
I've always been a fan of Fugu, http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/fugu/ and it's free.

Cyberduck, http://cyberduck.ch/ is also a good one and free.

I really don't think it be worth paying money for one considering the quality of the free ones.

::Lisa::
Jan 30, 2008, 07:20 PM
I'm using the Firefox one (Fire FTP) it's brilliant for what I want to do

tominated
Jan 31, 2008, 01:13 AM
rapidweaver has a built in ftp client.

lurcher
Jan 31, 2008, 05:24 AM
www.fetchsoftworks.com (http://www.fetchsoftworks.com/) is very good - woof!

Makosuke
Jan 31, 2008, 05:58 AM
We're using Cyberduck where I work for relatively light duty ftp work, and it does seem to get the job done for zero dollars.

Personally, I'm a longtime Interarchy (VERY longtime) for my heavy lifting at home. I like its interface, and that it can double-click a mirror file and have it scan a local folder containing nearly 3000 files and find only the differences that need to be uploaded in under three seconds, and I can even create special placeholder files in my local mirror so it won't touch specific stuff on the server that I want to stay there.

Worth the price to me (and I haven't even tried v9 yet), but it's probably overkill to most people.

Darkroom
Jan 31, 2008, 06:11 AM
my personal fav app for FTP on mac is Transmit: http://www.panic.com/transmit/

jer2eydevil88
Jan 31, 2008, 06:54 PM
Not many people like Filezilla because of its ugly interface but it works fantastic.
http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client

I use Cyberduck and Filezilla because there are often times when the lack of an independent file browser in Cyberduck makes my work difficult.