Myth: "FTP is fine, you don't need git deployment."

Myth: "FTP is fine, you don't need git deployment."

Budget hosts wave you off git because supporting it costs them. Compare the two on the day something breaks.

The tradeoff:
— FTP/SFTP: drag, drop, pray. No version history, no atomic deploys, half-uploaded files serve 500s to live users mid-transfer.
— Git deploy (or rsync + symlink): versioned, rollback in one command, no broken intermediate state.

The catch: many cheap shared plans block SSH entirely, so git is off the table by design. That's not your limitation — it's theirs, sold as simplicity.

FTP isn't "simpler." It's deploys without a safety net.

Reality: a host that blocks SSH isn't keeping it simple — it's keeping you out of safe deploys.