FTP

FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol

It is a protocol used to transfer file from a host to another place. For example, when we want to publish a website in the web hosting. We can use FTP to transfer the file from our computer (client) to the web hosting. The file transfered will not disappeared from the client side. It is actually make another copy to the web hosting (server).



The definition from Wikipedia states that
"File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a standard network protocol used to copy a file from one host to another over a TCP/IP-based network,
such as the Internet.
FTP is built on a client-server architecture and utilizes separate control and data connections between the client and server."