| >FTP is insecure Really [0]? >however, you're getting dangerously close to the anti-PHP stereotype of the average PHP developer I think you're getting dangerously close to coming off as condescending and insulting. Despite what you may think, plain old fully managed shared hosting is still massively popular, especially here in the UK. Our client base are design and development houses who want a reliable, tinker-free fully managed, predictable and secure environment. These folks aren't as backwards as you think, they already have a development workflow that works just fine. They push their stuff to their htdocs folder (via FTPS) and it just works. We even support WebDeploy (also secure) on the Windows platform so they can build MS deploy packages and push them up. Most of our clients do use source control, they're not that naive but not all of them have drank the Github Koolade. They're happy with their own private source control arrangements. It's an environment and process that's tried and tested so they can get on with building apps that pay the rent and keep the lights on without futzing about with dynos and droplets and the like. Not only that they can pick up the phone and within two rings get access to an experience frontline engineer who will fix a problem or answer a question within a couple of hours. I can speak about this from experience as an engineer who works for a UK shared hoster. Admittedly we're not a bulk shared-hoster like GoDaddy, our services are tailored towards the needs of business clients, not someone's granny deploying a Wordpress site with pictures of cats. [0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Transfer_Protocol#FTPS |