(I just hope iWeb will at some point create a home page that would appear in the browser bar just like the domain name used, instead of having a huge, ugly, and unnecessary tail.) I also officially applaud the team at CoreFTP, David V. I officially applaud the Apple team in charge of adding SFTP to iWeb starting with version ’09. Oh, and if your bank doesn’t use a secure site (https) before you log-in, change banks ASAP and tell them why you are changing. Later in this article, I will recommend an excellent server that does offer both SSL and SFTP.

If you are certain that your current server doesn’t offer SSL or SFTP, change servers immediately, or right before your contract renews (if you really think you can afford to be unencrypted between now and then). For the same reason, I use SSL with both my incoming and outgoing mail servers. Since I switched to SFTP, it has never happened again with any of my sites or my clients’ sites.

It happened to me many years ago, before I knew better. Regular FTP sends your password unencrypted through the Internet, so a bad guy can “sniff” your password while it goes by, and then use it to take your site down. So why don’t Adobe Media Encoder, Compressor, DVKitchen, Turbo.264HD, and EpisodePro support SFTP too? All of these are professional tools, but for some unknown reason, they alarmingly all lack SFTP support as of the publication date of this article. And from Apple, even iWeb (starting with the ’09 version) supports SFTP. Fortunately, there are many good software programs that already support SFTP, including CoreFTP, Cyberduck, Fetch, Transmit, and Übercaster. That’s why there are secure websites (https) and secure e-mail encryption (SSL). There are bad guys out there, and we can’t afford to make it easy for them. Even though we would love to have a utopian world -and a utopian Internet-, we are certainly not there yet. You know who you are: Adobe, Apple, DVcreators, elGato, Telestream, and others.

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