Remember the old days when we had to upload our web page via ftp? I guess for the php developers out there this is still the thing. Developing ruby applications and having capistrano and heroku and stuff has gotten me rid of using ftp for years. But lately I started to use middleman and that lamp server hosting I still have sticking around got useful again. Without having ssh access to it, I was again left with the (good) old ftp option. But as I remembered, syncing a web page by ftp sucked. I used to do that all manually: either bluntly overwriting or first removing and then newly upload everything, neither of which is very elaborate. But then I found a proper solution for all this: lftp. What I use now to properly sync a static middleman page over ftp is this:
lftp -e 'mirror -e -R local_directory remote_directory && exit' -u user_name ftp.your-domain.com