What Affects Collection Time? (FTP)

Deployment can be a resource-intensive operation, especially if a project or a deployment server contains lots of directories and files.

The following configuration options should speed up deployment:

• Exclude directories that are not needed from deployment (e.g. images). This can be done from the deployment server settings (Tools | Deployment | Configuration) under Excluded Paths.
• Under Tools | Deployment | Options, uncheck Overwrite up-to-date files to avoid uploading files that don't have to be uploaded.
• Depending on the server, switching between active and passive mode in the advanced FTP settings may help. This can be done from Tools | Deployment, opening Advanced Settings for the server and toggling Passive mode.
• Limit number of concurrent FTP connections. To do this, select Tools | Deployment, open Advanced Settings for the server and toggle the mode Limit concurrent connections, setting the number of connections (usually 3-5 concurrent connections is OK for any server if you experience problems with a greater number of connections).

Liubov,

Thanks for all the tips! This looks like it is helping a bit to shave off some of the time it takes to collect some of the project files that I need to upload.