I used Fling for years... I kept 2.21 and it was rock solid. Recently I had to make a change... I had too many simultaneous FTP sessions and my webhost was blacklisting my IP because their firewall was interpreting my activity as an attack.... So, I consolidated all of my ftp activity into a single session that I run every 2 minutes. I am using www.scriptftp.com. It has been fantastic and very easy to customize over my network. Great customer service during setup too....
Thought I'd Share,
Greg
Thanks Greg. I am the guy behind ScriptFTP and have just realized of this conversation.
Yes, the plain old FTP is being deprecated by many providers such as 1and1, Amazon web services etc. From the point of view of the network administrator is a pain to manage, specially because it is not secure and has a strange way to handle ports to transfer files.
Hopefully SFTP is now very common and most FTP clients as ScriptFTP support it. This is a small script (for ScriptFTP) that synchronizes a remote folder from a folder in your computer (uploads new or modified files).
OPENHOST("sftp://ftp.myhost.com","myuser","mypassword")
SYNC("C:\my_folder","/my_remote_folder",UPLOAD,SUBDIRS)
CLOSEHOST
As you can see ScriptFTP is meant to be easy to understand and, unlike WinSCP which also supports scripting, it is built from ground up to support scripting
If any of you have any questions on how to configure ScriptFTP to work as Fling (or anything else) feel free to ask me anything on the website chat at ScriptFTP.com. I will also stay tuned on this forum thread