Shared webhosting providers switch to FTPeS
This is so annoying, and I’ve noticed it on several different shared hosting providers that I use. Seems like everyone is changing to FTPeS, and providing god awful instructions on how to switch. It is solved by changing your connection type to FTPS. That is all. Look how Webhostingpad decides to explain it:
Over the course of the next two weeks we will be switching the configuration of our servers to require TLS when connecting to the FTP server to increase the security of our servers. This will require a few small configuration changes on your ftp client. Please see our knowledge base article linked below for instructions on how to set this up with the Filezilla FTP client. The configuration should be similar for other clients. The only thing you should have to change is setting the servertype to “FTPeS/FTPS explicit” instead of FTP. This also means that the Java based FTP client in your account dashboard will be disabled as this does not support FTPeS.
FTPeS instructions:
http://support.webhostingpad.com/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=226
Absolutely terrible.
