I am new to FTP. I set up a server off one of my old computers

Basically every poor part of the world with internet is constantly spamming every IP they can find to hit any open ports.
Just ban all of China and Indias IP ranges and they'll drop off the radar.

Then it's for the most part normal? This one was Russia, but I've seen so many different countries it's ridiculous.

If it's nothing to worry about then I won't worry about it. It's still just annoying to pop in and see about 50-100 connections an hour.

especially if you're using default ports, yes, it's normal
there are bots all over the world that are randomly hitting random IPs with common passwords to try to find weak services

worth noting that FTP by itself is cleartext (not encrypted), so shouldn't really be used over the internet directly unless it's a public server

i'd suggest using sftp (ssh) instead

>>57287167
-- if you must use ftp, consider ftps (ftp over ssl), use a long, random password, and perhaps also change the ports (won't stop all scanners, but should cut down the number of hits you get)

There's nothing that I need to worry about being private, it's just excel spreadsheets that I can update and such. I just hate not being able to leave if I want to and be able to do it from say a hotel room, or if I'm wherever and just tether my phone.

I didn't use a common port, which happened by accident lol.

We use FTP and a batch to copy stuff over every 60 seconds to keep the folder updated corporate wide, even use my phone to file sync over wifi if need be. Just doesn't work outside of work.

I guess if it becomes a problem I'll just get IT to set up the certificates or whatever I need and do without the ftp.

>>57287250
>We use FTP and a batch to copy stuff over every 60 seconds to keep the folder updated corporate wide, even use my phone to file sync over wifi if need be. Just doesn't work outside of work.
should use syncthing