I remember trying a few WebDAV implementations back in the day -- the performance was awful, and they were difficult to configure compared to a vanilla SSH or A

I remember trying a few WebDAV implementations back in the day -- the performance was awful, and they were difficult to configure compared to a vanilla SSH or Apache/Nginx install. Implementing on top of HTTP is usually to make things easier for users behind firewalls, squid proxies, and the like. In my experience, those environments (schools, offices) usually had to open port 21 and/or 22 for FTP/SFTP for a web maintainer anyway...