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FTP needs to be avoided at all costs!
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| - no transactions | |
| - even more difficult if there are multiple "consumers" | |
| - no acknowledges | |
| - is the file now deletet or what?! | |
| - list timeout (because firewall kiks in since there is no heartbeat mechanism and no data stream) if there are many files | |
| - active / passive mode confusion | |
| - firewall fuck up | |
| - unreliable dynamic port openings | |
| - sftp / ftps confusion | |
| - most ftps some kinda broken | |
| - often sftp only supports user password no private key - wtf?! | |
| - unreliable file meta data if available at all | |
| - typical file system problems and limits | |
| FTP(S) needs to be avoided at all costs! | |
| SFTP is okay for very very very basic tasks. | |
| There are so many alternatives out there, one is AMQP. |
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