I’d like to submit a plea for rsync support. I have seen two posts where the reply is essentially “this is a hosting site, you shouldn’t need it.” (To be fair, it was stated much more diplomatically: “Just please keep in mind that we provide a website hosting service, meaning our services are sup…

Unfortunately admin has been very clear that rsync isn’t going to happen. End of the day free hosting comes with limitations and that’s just one of them

Looking at the Premium hosting , I think it’s only the business hosting plans (out of iFastNet ’s offerings) that do support ssh and rsync

Yeah, I know the admin has said rsync is not available. That’s my my post’s title was “A plea for rsync support” – I’m begging for the admin to change their minds. I’d also be curious as to why it’s not supported. It’s not rocket science. It would reduce their costs (less bandwidth than FTP). I…

Because IFastNet don’t support SSH on the infrastructure that infinity free is built on. Rsync requires SSH. Its not even really admins choice other than paying for a more expensive infrastructure

Rsync indeed doesn’t work here because our hosting doesn’t support SSH/SFTP. However, you may want to try Rclone instead. Like rsync, rclone is a useful tool to sync files between two systems. Except that Rclone doesn’t just support SFTP, but supports a long list of protocols, services and provider…

Thanks for the more explicit reference to rclone. I looked at the documentation but haven’t tried it yet. Certainly looks like a better alternative than just bare FTP – which is what I assume it was. I’m wondering if you’d consider making an explicit help article on it? Include rsync in the titl…

I don’t think I’ll write an official guide right now. Searching the forum for rsync only shows three topics, including this one, so I wouldn’t say it’s a frequently asked question. But I’d be happy to accept a Community Guides about this though!

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A plea for rsync support

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wasik405 April 29, 2025, 5:04pm 3

Using Rsync Hosting Support

rsync uses the SSH protocol under the hood, which our hosting doesn’t offer. So no, you can’t use rsync here.

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