For example: secure FTP (SSH enabled) on a Hostgator shared account is free but on LunarPages it costs $2/mth IF you’re on a server that supports SSH. Check with your web host for availability, ports and possible cost. The following examples explain how to configure FileZilla and WinSCP as secure FTP clients connecting to a shared account on Hostgator. The good news is that it’s easy to prevent this or at least make it more difficult by using secure FTP. With wifi and hotspot access becoming ubiqutous, it’s now fairly trivial for hackers to grab your data stream which could contain potentially sensitive information such as your username and password. The intercepted packets of data are clearly readable. Before the widespread deployment of wifi, intercepting these data packets required a determined hacker with the means to intercept this traffic between point A (e.g. Basic FTP however is not secure and all transmissions are in clear text. Place a check mark next to 'Always trust certificate in future sessions.Secure FTP (SFTP) for fast easy file transfer is hard to beat. You will receive a 'Unknown certificate' message.Change the 'Encryption' to 'Require Explicit FTP Over TLS'.If using the primary FTP user, please use the same password that you use to log in to Control Panel

Password – Enter the password for this user.Please note that you will need to include the number, the pipe character and your user name. If using the primary account, the FTP username can be located in Control Panel. For accounts hosted on our Windows Server 2008/IIS /IIS 8 environments, the FTP user name requires a specific format. The alternate FTP address can be located in Control Panel

Host – Enter either your domain name or alternate FTP address.

Click the New Site button and name the site.

Click on File and then click on Site Manager.

Our tests were successful with the following. Note that this is not the same as SFTP (FTP via SSH), so you may have to experiment a bit with your FTP client settings to get a secure connection. Windows 2008/IIS 7 and above allows a secure FTP connection via FTP over SSL.

Ftp over ssh filezilla