[eevee]

rsync will easily handle a few lines changed in a large number of files.

Or you could just, y'know, run the static site generator on the server. What Linux doesn't have Python installed?

[TheZenPsycho]

or you could just, 'y'know, run SSI. what web server doesn't have SSI? What problem are we actually solving here?

[YuriNiyazov]

Serving pure HTML files off S3 is pretty popular. No SSI there.

[TheZenPsycho]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7432097 also, which is it. are we on s3 or on a linux server with python?

[eevee]

nginx?

[TheZenPsycho]

http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_ssi_module.html

[eevee]

Ha, color me surprised then :)