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Q1:	What's the point of using FTP to serve files? Why not just use HTTP?
A1:	HTTP has indeed supplanted much of the purpose for FTP's existence, particularly in the case of large binary downloads (such as software archives). However, FTP has advantages in its dual-channel connection model (which allows it to operate through firewalls), its built-in user authentication, the ability to upload files and perform filesystem operations on the server, and the fact that its transport mechanism is tuned to support large binary files rather than small text/HTML files (as with HTTP).
Q2:	My /var partition is too small to hold a large public anonymous FTP archive.
A2:	You can create a location in another, larger partition to hold the content that would ...