

One such program is FileZilla client, a free, popular application known to many as FTP a great open source FTP client application. In addition to command line access, there are plenty of free SCP based GUI programs that can be used. You can start a session like: scp source_file GUI SCP Client Software On most Linux based systems SCP will already be included as part of your command line executables. However, if you have changed the SSH port, which we highly recommend for port scanning reasons, you will need to supply the SSH client application with the port number before making the connection. If you have not changed the SSH port on your VPS, then is will connect to port 22 by default. SCP works by starting an SSH session to your VPS and then requesting the SCP process to be begin. If you have lots of users to manage, or don't wish to provide users with actual Linux user accounts on your VPS, we recommend that you use an FTP server with none Linux based FTP accounts for authentication instead. Please be aware that using SCP does require the ability for a user to use the SSH protocol to connect remotely and a Linux user account on the virtual server (VPS). SCP is normally a great FTP substitute when you only have a handful of users to manage and are happy for them to have SSH access to your server. In many cases, it negates the need to install an FTP server on your VPS, whilst at the same time providing high levels of authentication and data encryption throughout the session. This is a protocol based on Secure Shell (SSH) and there are many client applications available that provide SCP functionality.

If you want to copy, move and delete files and directories on your Farbyte VPS, the easiest way to begin with is usually to use Secure Copy (SCP).
