HTTP vs FTP upload

Question

I am building a large website where members will be allowed to upload content (images, videos) up to 20MB of size (maybe a little less like 15MB, we haven\'t settled on a fi

Answer 1

FTP will consume less bandwidth than HTTP, since the latter will need to encode(base64) the binary content into plain text thus increase the total transfer size. (by 1/3).

However, bandwidth consumption might not necessarily be the major concern, compare to other factors like usability and security, in which HTTP prevail.