Cerberus FTP Server by Redwood has been in business for more than 20 years. During this time, we’ve published a lot of information on the SFTP protocol, how to optimize SFTP servers and more. In this post, we’ve organized all of our SFTP content into helpful guides so you can easily find what you’re looking for.
If you have any questions about SFTP, our support team is always happy to help. As well, you can start a trial of Cerberus’s SFTP Server here.
SFTP protocol basics
SFTP has a number of differences from other file transfer protocols, which are detailed in the posts below. When choosing which protocol to use, you’ll want to focus on factors like transfer speed, required encryption and authentication, and utility for your transfer partners, users and administrators. The posts below help you understand this background.
- How SFTP works compared to FTP
- SFTP concepts (SFTP guide part 1)
- SFTP connection and authentication process (SFTP guide part 2)
- Is an SFTP server also an MFT server?
How to compare SFTP to other file transfer protocols
- Understanding the difference between SFTP and FTPS
- SCP vs SFTP comparison
- Why is SFTP slower than FTPS?
SFTP server administration resources
SFTP servers offer a more diverse set of options than some other protocols, with added methods for authentication, encryption schema and more. These posts help administrators set up their SFTP server correctly from day one.
SFTP use cases
SFTP servers are ideal tools for Windows-based file transfer, and are recommended by Cisco for Cisco Unified Communications Manager backups. The posts below detail these use cases.
- The pros and cons of FTPS vs SFTP for Windows
- Windows Server optimizations for SFTP
- Processing CUCM backups via SFTP server
Cerberus SFTP server settings and features
Cerberus’s SFTP server has become a file transfer standard. Answers to the most common questions we receive about our SFTP server are grouped below in the following help articles.