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by marknadal 4289 days ago
Really neat to have FTP access for new JavaScript to NodeJS developers that don't know how to use git yet.
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In 2014 ftp access is not a feature, it is an alarm bell to anyone that has any concern at all for security.
I _hope_ that when they write 'FTP' they actually mean '(FTP or) SFTP'. Alas, that's no always true.
That's FTPS, not SFTP, to be precise.

The former is classic FTP sessions secured with TLS on all or some (negotiated at runtime) connections. The latter is a (saner, IMHO) separate protocol traditionally run over SSH session.

Don't know how to use Git but you're a NodeJS dev? Really?
I have Modulus Node hosting. Deploying is as simple as running "modulus deploy" in the terminal, no git knowledge required :)
Well, then it's high time those folks learn git, isn't it? The basics aren't that difficult.

Or, if not git, then some other version control system. In the 21st century, a VCS really isn't optional.

Just signed up and tried ftp access but seems like there is a problem. Most probably it's because of randomly generated ftp username

Edit: It's working but needs a time to finish deployment