Evolved in 1971, the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) emerged as the standard network protocol which is used for the transfer of files between server and clients on a network.
FTP is put up on a server-client model and uses separate control and data connections.For transfer purpose, FTP users may validate themselves by a sign-in protocol, generally with the help of credentials using a username and a password.
FTP is found to be secure as it is layered by a security protocol named SSL/TLS (FTPS).FTP is known for consuming fewer resources than the typical HTTP protocol while downloading and uploading.
Once the directory is finalized for staring downloads you can move ahead for setting FTP account.FTP users have ‘read-write’ access for the specifically selected directory, they can also overwrite the directory which already exists.
FTP users also have scripting abilities when used through the command line.
One can restrict the number of users by creating limited FTP logins for them.These were a few good things about FTP but on the other side, there are also few limitations it has with it.