When you transfer just 1 large file, you don't have all the extra overhead that FTP normally has.The publishing of this information does not imply support of this article. It has to make the directory, switch into it, all commands that take time. When you transfer thousands of files with FTP, it has to handle each file 1 by 1 (though you do say 5 files at a time, its still processing per file basis). If your needing this to speed up the transfer time, then even a barely compressed zip file would transfer faster than the individual files via ftp.
To get the smallest size possible, zip would not be what you want. If you want to use another type like bzip or gzip, you could whip up your own version of my unzipper script to support that type.Įven if you zipped the file, it's total file size will not be that much smaller. Note that my script uses PHP to do the unzipping with the ZipArchive class.
Even that process seems better than transferring all the files. Just place the unzipper in the same directory as the zip file, go to the file on the webpage, and click unzip. I have an old Quick Unzipper script on GitHub, it can unzip the file on the server. It really depends on what types your server knows already (since you don't have root access to install anything different). It probably supports tar as well, so you could create a tar.gz. Most likely, your server supports at least zip/unzip of zip files. If you want to use Filezilla, then you need to zip it. This can be found in the FileZilla Server Interface under Edit > Filetransfer compresssion. If you need an easy way to transfer files between computers there are many services specifically for this.Īs a side note, the FileZilla FTP server does support compression but it looks like you would need the ability to configure the server (which is not possible with most hosts). Otherwise you will have to upload/download the full size files. If you can run custom code on their server then you could get a program which would do the rar compression/extraction for you. If their FTP server supports compression then you could get a compatable client and use the compression in the site. As a result you options are limited to the features and tools they provide. When you use a company like you get the advantage of a syestem which is low cost, easy to use, and easy to maintain, but lose the ability to run custom code. You could contact to see if their FTP server supports a compression algorithm, but I would not get my hopes up. It looks like there is not a standard FTP compression algorithm (" Unfortunately, there is no one standard FTP file compression method there are HUNDREDS"). The wording of your question is not clear, so I am assuming you want the the files transferred to and from your wordpress site to be compressed.
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