On 1/10/2020 5:52 PM, Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 09:54:34AM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: >>> ... whether rsync is an option. >> Sure, as long as you run it over ssh. The default in Debian is to >> run rsync over ssh, but it can also be explicitly invoked that way: >> rsync -av --rsh=ssh host::module /dest >> rsync -av -e "ssh -l ssh-user" rsync-user@host::module /dest >> rsync -e "ssh -l sshuser" localpath remotehost:remotepath > > For shared hosting, Hostgator offers: > > (1) SFTP (SSH FTP, port 22) >
Use this one to pull and push files. > (2) FTPS (FTP over SSL or TLS, port 21) > > (3) SSH (ssh -p 2222 cpanel...@ip.add.re.ss) > Use this one to connect to the host or to execute command on the host. Simply put, sftp and ssh uses the same protocol, ssh is to execute a command remotely/connect to the host and sftp is to manage files remotely. Here the ports are differents but the protocol is the same. Don't complicate things with ftps/ftp! -- John Doe