

Second: Enter the following connection details. Connecting to the Server via SFTP Quick-connect This guide will be using Filezilla as an example. To use SFTP instead of FTP, most clients will support specifying sftp:// before the hostname or changing the port to your SSH port ( 22 by default) instead of the FTP port ( 21 by default). Most FTP clients (such as Filezilla, WinSCP, etc.) also include support for SFTP. Because of this, if you have access to a server with an account over SSH such as a Hostwinds Cloud VPS or Dedicated Server, you can access the file system of the server over SFTP using those same login credentials.

The main differences are that instead of having separate FTP accounts for authentication and using SSL/TLS for encryption, SFTP uses the already available user accounts on the server and ssh keys/fingerprints for encryption. SFTP is similar to the popular file transfer protocol FTP.
