архивный сайт (узел), FTP (ftp)-сервер хост-машина Интернета, где хранятся исходные тексты программ, документы, сообщения электронной почты или новости для общего доступа через anonymous FTP, Gopher, World-Wide Web или другую систему распространения документов Синоним(ы): FTP site, FTP archive, FTP server
(Or "FTP site", "FTP archive") An Internet host where program source, documents, e-mail or news messages are stored for public access via anonymous FTP, Gopher, web or other document distribution system. There may be several archive sites (mirrors) for, e.g., a Usenet newsgroup though one may be recognised as the main one. FTP servers were common on the Internet for about ten years but have been largely replaced by web servers since the invention of the World-Wide Web and its HTTP protocol. The archie service attempted to index the contents of FTP archives, foreshadowing the indexing of the web by Google and others.