Martyn Thompson
June 26th, 2008, 12:32 AM
Hello readers,
I am about to begin hosting a website on a Virtual Private Server. The hosting company run Ubuntu servers which is the reason I was attracted to them.
The website itself won't have much traffic however there will be a number of PDFs available to download.
In the past I have placed the PDFs in their own directory and just hyperlinked to them (presumably served thro' Apache). This has been done both on low cost servers and on my own 'webspace' that comes with my ISP account.
I am writing to ask whether it is better to run vsFTP or some other FTP program for those file transfers as well as using Apache to serve the 'main' web content (html and php)?
What are the benefits and drawbacks of using FTP server as well as Apache? Is vsFTP more efficient at larger file transfers than using Apache?
Do these question make any sense/do they seem valid?!
Any advice, or pointers to advice in the form of HowTos etc would be gratefully accepted.
Regards,
Martyn.
I am about to begin hosting a website on a Virtual Private Server. The hosting company run Ubuntu servers which is the reason I was attracted to them.
The website itself won't have much traffic however there will be a number of PDFs available to download.
In the past I have placed the PDFs in their own directory and just hyperlinked to them (presumably served thro' Apache). This has been done both on low cost servers and on my own 'webspace' that comes with my ISP account.
I am writing to ask whether it is better to run vsFTP or some other FTP program for those file transfers as well as using Apache to serve the 'main' web content (html and php)?
What are the benefits and drawbacks of using FTP server as well as Apache? Is vsFTP more efficient at larger file transfers than using Apache?
Do these question make any sense/do they seem valid?!
Any advice, or pointers to advice in the form of HowTos etc would be gratefully accepted.
Regards,
Martyn.