🚛 Think of SFTP as a small truck carefully delivering your precious data to our Vidata solution. This data is like special ingredients (like the name and age of your customers) that make your videos truly personalised and special. By following our step-by-step instructions for setting up SFTP correctly, you can be sure that your data will arrive quickly and securely, ready to be turned into personalised videos!
It is a protocol for transferring files securely over the Internet.
SFTP, or SSH File Transfer Protocol, is a network protocol that provides file transfer and data manipulation over a secure data channel.
Let me explain it in a simpler way. 🧐
Imagine you have to send an important letter by post. You want to be sure that the letter reaches its destination unopened and undamaged. To do this, you use a secure envelope that can only be opened by the recipient. What's more, you choose a reliable postal service to send it.
This is more or less what the SFTP protocol does with your files when they are transferred over the Internet. It "wraps" your files in an extra layer of security to ensure that they cannot be "opened" or viewed by unauthorised people while they are being transferred. In addition, it ensures that files arrive at their destination (i.e. the destination server) unaltered and undamaged.
In short, SFTP is a secure and efficient way of sending files from point A to point B on the Internet. And it's what we use for data import at Vidata! 😊
When we say "you can drop your info onto an SFTP file", this means that you can gather all the data you need (in this case, customer data to generate custom videos) and place it in a file, usually in CSV format.
Once this file has been created, you then send it to a specific location on a server using the SFTP protocol. It's a bit like dropping a letter into a letterbox, hence the use of the word 'drop'.