I agree that you need git or hg or svn or /something/ of the sort for large sites, like sangguine has, but for small/tiny sites, other options are available. H

I agree that you need git or hg or svn or /something/ of the sort for large sites, like sangguine has, but for small/tiny sites, other options are available. Heck, I use sshfs to mount my blog as a directory & edit files directly. rsync has also worked nicely for me in the past. But then, these are all sites that I either don't care about source control, or don't have git/hg available on the shared server.