diff --git a/frontends/dashboard/src/env.ts b/frontends/dashboard/src/env.ts
index b5f07212..782cb8d8 100644
--- a/frontends/dashboard/src/env.ts
+++ b/frontends/dashboard/src/env.ts
@@ -107,12 +107,6 @@ export const INSTANCE_ADMIN_URL = (name: string) => {
   return INSTANCE_URL(name, `_/`)
 }
 
-/**
- * Helpful alias for generating the URL for a specific instance's FTP server
- * @param {string} email
- * @example
- * FTP_URL("user@example.com") // ftp://user%40example.com@ftp.sfo-1.pockethost.io
- */
 export const FTP_URL = (email: string) => {
-  return `ftp://${encodeURIComponent(email)}@ftp.sfo-1.${PUBLIC_APEX_DOMAIN}`
+  return `"${email}"@ftp.sfo-1.${PUBLIC_APEX_DOMAIN}`
 }
diff --git a/frontends/lander/content/docs/usage/ftp.md b/frontends/lander/content/docs/usage/ftp.md
index f5250ba4..76a5c441 100644
--- a/frontends/lander/content/docs/usage/ftp.md
+++ b/frontends/lander/content/docs/usage/ftp.md
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ Inside each instance directory, you will find:
 ### GUI
 
 - [FileZilla](https://filezilla-project.org/) is a great GUI frontend available for all platforms.
+- [ftp-simple](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humy2833.ftp-simple) is a VSCode plugin
 
 ### CLI