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I have a requirement to move large files from server to server in VB code, like in a Windows Service. My initial response was we need to use FTP classes in .NET because why would there be tools like Filezilla or CuteFTP if a simple file copy would do the trick. But the more I think of it, I can’t really come up with why FTP really is so important. Yet everyone seems to use it. What am I missing?
FTP is a nearly universal file transfer protocol that allows the copying of files from one computer to a different computer on an internal network or on an external network like the Internet.
Copying David’s comment. If you mean that you can copy the file to something like a network share them yes, FTP probably isn’t necessary.
Adding my thought. If you have computers with different operating systems on a network, then FTP would be required.