Cloud drive service brings us a lot of convenience (for example, access to and download files anytime and anywhere, save a mass of local disk space, own almost unlimited cloud disk accounts to get an unlimited expansion of web disk space), but it is cumbersome and inefficient to upload and download files without a desktop client and only using the web browser. As a result, often in order to manage your files in the cloud, you had to download a bunch of different software (official client), even for different services you have to repeat this step.

CrossFTP is a powerful, stable, easy to use, portable and cross-platform FTP/FXP/SFTP/FTPS/Cloud Storage client software developed by CrossFTP Software from China. It was written in Java, takes the interface design similar to Windows Explorer. Users who are familiar with FlashFXP and CuteFTP will probably like it.

Xshell is a powerful and user-friendly terminal emulator (namely implementing the operation and management to remote hosts in a local computer) from South Korea, supports SSH1, SSH2, FTP, SFTP, Telnet, rlogin, and Serial protocols. It enables users to directly connect to the remote hosting via Internet, so as to easily control Linux servers on Windows.

Cyberduck is a popular free and open-source FTP/SFTP client for Windows and Mac. This FTP client from Switzerland is one of three excellent FTP clients recommended by cPanel. It has simple operation interface and single column view, which make users feel very relaxed, convenient and quick.

If you are a webmaster, you are likely to have such a demand: Regularly upload/download your database or website files to/from multiple servers through FTP client. Manually uploading/downloading files, database is a time-consuming and hard work. Lazy but smart people will try to find and test a variety of automation tools in order to efficiently accomplish the same work with ease.