At Files.com, we are one of the largest providers of cloud-based SFTP in the world. SFTP is extremely popular for business to business integration, and we are proud to support it fully.

With that said, SFTP suffers from major performance limitations at the protocol level. Additionally, corporate firewalls can interfere with SFTP traffic.

SFTP should be used where required, such as for business-to-business integration via applications and processes that specifically require SFTP.

For file transfers where performance is a consideration, we strongly recommend you instead prefer our direct integrations, such as our Desktop, Mobile, and Web apps, SDKs, API, and Command Line app. Please visit our Preferred Apps For File Transfer page to learn about and download the Files.com native apps as an alternative to SFTP.

Our article on Maximizing SFTP Performance describes how to make SFTP as performant as possible.