Woah, that's not very kind! Some of these sites are run on a shoestring by sysadmins who are also juggling other issues, and it's hard for them to justify a bra

Woah, that's not very kind! Some of these sites are run on a shoestring by sysadmins who are also juggling other issues, and it's hard for them to justify a brand-new deployment pipeline when the existing 'fput ~/code/the_web_site ftp://hosting/our_great_web_site' deployment costs nothing to maintain and works fine (sales/conversions are coming in).