Gui Client For Amazon S3 Mac Os X
Panic recently released a new major version of, over five years since version 3.0 was released. As far as I am concerned, Transmit is one of the best FTP clients for OS X; I've been using it for the last five years. Because of that length of time, a paid upgrade to version 4.0 is quite reasonable ($30 for five years of software usage is pretty good value, after all).
Email clients come in all shapes and sizes, but when it comes to the options available on the Mac, we feel that Airmail is the best email client for most people.
But is the upgrade worth it? Transmit 3 is a solid FTP client, supporting FTP, FTP with SSL, SFTP, WebDav, and Amazon S3. One of the features that Transmit 4 (T4 from this point forward) boasts over previous versions is a serious speed increase. It claims that listing 30,000 remote files is 4x faster, that downloading 30,000 small files is 18x faster, deleting 30,000 small files is 2.25x faster, and uploading 15,000 small files is 25x faster.
Free FTP Clients for Mac Filezilla When it comes to file transfer protocol (FTP), Filezilla is the ubiquitous option, being free and open-source it’s a popular choice as Firefox is as a browser and Thunderbird a mail client. Amazon's S3 is an online storage solution; you pay for only what you use ($0.15/GB/month, plus some transfer costs). I wrote a simple step-by-step guide to setting you a Mac to sync with Amazon S3; here's the executive summary version: [robg adds: The above is a very short summary of the much-more. S3 Browser is a freeware Windows client for Amazon S3 and Amazon CloudFront. Amazon S3 provides a simple web services interface that can be used to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web. Amazon S3 offers a convenient web interface for it users, but if you prefer working with online data directly from your Mac, CloudMounter is what you need. This application is Amazon S3 client Mac users could make use of.
Those are impressive speed gains. Of course, how many people will be uploading or downloading thousands of small files at one time?
Backup Client For Amazon S3
Testing the speed gains of T4 Uploading a 14MB zip archive to my Web host using SFTP took the same amount of time as previous versions, so the speed gains are in how Transmit handles and queues FTP commands. Looking in the T4 preferences, there is a Transfers section where you can throttle upload and download speeds and specify the number of transfers done simultaneously (five, by default). With Transmit 3 (T3) you can tell it to queue files to transfer, and the default there is two simultaneous transfers. So the real test then is to upload a lot of little files to see how well T4 works compared to T3. To test, I created 14014 5-byte files across 14 directories, and uploaded the top-level directory. I didn't experience the 25x speed increase whatsoever, and yet the speed for T3 is very close to what was shown on their site. That means that according to their site, the upload in T4 should have taken about 2 minutes (however, this may be due to using SFTP versus regular FTP, or perhaps version 4.0.2 has a bug in it).
