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There are two major differences between Secure File Transfer Protocol and FTP. The first is that SFTP utilizes Secure Shell, or SSH, to encrypt all communications between the client and server.

WordPress is widely hailed as the content platform of choice among the roll-your-own blog crowd. It's free, it's flexible and extensible, and it's entirely open source. But just like most other open ...