FTP Settings
What is a proxy server?
A proxy server is a kind of buffer between your computer and the Internet resources you are accessing (Web sites, FTP archives etc.). The data you request come to the proxy first, and only then it transmits the data to you.
Why I need to use proxy servers?
- Transfer speed improvement. If the file you requested was received before to your proxy server, then proxy server will interrupt this file request and you will receive the file directly from proxy. However need to know, you can got the "speed down" effect. This effect appears when your proxy has long answer time because there is slow connection between you and your proxy server.
- Security and privacy. Anonymous proxies destroys information about your computer in the requests header. So you can safely surf the net and your information will never be used by hackers and spammers.
- Sometimes you encounter some problems while accessing to web server. You have mistaken while working with some data and / or the server administrator restricted access from your IP. So you can use the anonymous proxy and try to access again.
FTP proxy server parameters:
- Proxy server is a name of your proxy server.
- User name and password are used in order to connect to your proxy server. It could be different from the username/password for your web server.
- Port is the port of the proxy server. Normally it's 21, and you don't need to change it.
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