what cab be done to upload files in a secure way

[marcky]

What can I use to upload files in a secure way?

[keikoraca]

Do you plan to use FTP or are you uploading via a web application on your site?

[marcky]

Well i want to know what is available. At the moment I am using webmatrix to upload the files with web protocol and I dont know how safe it is.
But I also need to use an application to load some data and on this application there are just 2 options
1) FTP
2) SFTP
Cheers

[jayc]

Unfortunately SFTP is not supported. If your account is hosted with us on IIS7 server, you can take advantage of FTP/SSL

[marcky]

why SFTP is not supported?
how can I take advantage of FTP/SSL

[CrystalCMS]

SFTP bears no resemblance to regular FTP. It's a completely different protocol based on SSH and is considered a very secure file transfer method. Quite confusingly by name at least, FTPS is indeed regular FTP albeit over SSL which is still very secure for most purposes.

The only common ground between SFTP and FTPS is that they're both file transfer protocols but the low level implementations of these are worlds apart.

[Tasslehoff]

Our knowledgebase provides more information on how to setup FTP over SSL for various FTP clients:

http://support.discountasp.net/KB/c321/configuring-ftp-over-ssl.aspx