{"id":811,"date":"2012-07-02T18:33:54","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T22:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrhost.ca\/system\/?p=811"},"modified":"2012-07-02T18:33:54","modified_gmt":"2012-07-02T22:33:54","slug":"secure-ftp-implicit-and-explicit-ftps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrhost.ca\/system\/2012\/07\/secure-ftp-implicit-and-explicit-ftps\/","title":{"rendered":"Secure FTP (Implicit and Explicit FTPS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re excited to announce that the Mr.Host FTP servers have been upgraded to support secure encrypted connections, for all Mr.Host web hosting customers.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve included support for both &#8220;implicit&#8221; SSL (running on port 990), and &#8220;explicit&#8221; (also referred to as TLS, AUTH TLS or FTPES), running the standard FTP port 21.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>How to Upgrade<\/h2>\n<p>We\u2019ve added a Knowledge Base article with details on how to enable encrypted FTP in the most common FTP clients, available here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mrhost.ca\/system\/knowledge-base\/ftp-access\/ftp-client-setup\/secure-ftp-using-ssl-encryption-with-ftp\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/mrhost.ca\/system\/knowledge-base\/ftp-access\/ftp-client-setup\/secure-ftp-using-ssl-encryption-with-ftp\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions or need help configuring your FTP client, you can contact us @<a href=\"mailto:help@mrhost.ca\">help@mrhost.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Technical Stuff &#8211; Implicit vs Explicit vs FTPS vs SFTP<\/h2>\n<p>There seems to be a lot of confusion over the different types of secure FTP, as there are several methods of securely transferring files that have been called &#8220;Secure FTP&#8221; at one point or another:<\/p>\n<h3>FTPS<\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Explicit FTPS\u00a0\u00a0is an extension to the FTP standard that allows clients to request that the FTP session be encrypted. This is done by sending the &#8220;AUTH TLS&#8221; command. The server has the option of allowing or denying connections that do not request TLS. This protocol extension is defined in the proposed standard:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tools.ietf.org\/html\/rfc4217\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">RFC 4217<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Implicit FTPS\u00a0is a deprecated standard for FTP that required the use of a SSL or TLS connection. It was specified to use different ports than plain FTP (usually port 990).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Mr.Host support both of these FTPS methods.<\/p>\n<h3>SFTP<\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Is not actually FTP, but a method for copying files over an SSH connection, using a similar command set.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Mr.Host does not currently support this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re excited to announce that the Mr.Host FTP servers have been upgraded to support secure encrypted connections, for all Mr.Host web hosting customers. We&#8217;ve included support for both &#8220;implicit&#8221; SSL (running on port 990), and &#8220;explicit&#8221; (also referred to as TLS, AUTH TLS or FTPES), running the standard FTP port 21. &nbsp; How to Upgrade [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrhost.ca\/system\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrhost.ca\/system\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrhost.ca\/system\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrhost.ca\/system\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrhost.ca\/system\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/mrhost.ca\/system\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":846,"href":"https:\/\/mrhost.ca\/system\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions\/846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrhost.ca\/system\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrhost.ca\/system\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrhost.ca\/system\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}