rant

ftp Clients

For the longest while, I have been using SmartFTP for my ftp needs. It recently went to a pay-me status. I was quite upset with that. But after having had to search for another ftp client, I can see why. There is not another client with the features of SmartFTP. It’s multiple connection windows and widows explorer type interface make it unique among the ftp clients.

I tried many of the free ftp clients, and I can say, why do most you bother trying to make one? Filezilla kicks all your butts. For one reason or another, most of the others just SUCK. Plain and simple. I will not get into names, but there are some that actually DO NOT work in a stock configuration. Having to restart a transaction because of a silly error is just unfathomable to me. Add on several errors, and it’s really bad. I tried one that would CONSTANTLY steal focus from my other work. Tweak UI handled that little problem as I didn’t see anyway in the client itself to disable that “feature”.

I almost paid the price to purchase SmartFTP, but since I found Filezilla. I think I will be alright until I have enough money to pay the SmartFTP extortion fee. And that’s all it really is. They could have a free version, with a lot less features, but they don’t. So I will stick with free for now.

What do you use?