I'm sure most people already know this but I just wanted to mention a couple of technical details:
- No information sent over ftp is secured. For this, you may want to consider SFTP (FTP over SSH)
- Because no encryption is applied to the information, the transfer speeds are going to be greater as compared to other, encrypted transfer mechanisms (e.g. SFTP). You will probably notice a difference by ~20%. That is, if your FTP speeds are ~200 kBps then your SFTP speeds may be ~160 kBps: YMMV.
But, I use FTP when the information isn't sensitive or when I just need it "NOW"!