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Manual Deployment

Jekyll generates your static site to the _site directory by default. You can transfer the contents of this directory to almost any hosting provider to get your site live. Here are some manual ways of achieving this:

rsync

Rsync is similar to scp except it can be faster as it will only send changed parts of files as opposed to the entire file. You can learn more about using rsync in the Digital Ocean tutorial.

Amazon S3

If you want to host your site in Amazon S3, you can do so by using the AWS cli client and pushing your rendered _site directory directly to your S3 bucket.

aws s3 sync _site s3://<YOUR DOMAIN>.com --size-only --storage-class REDUCED_REDUNDANCY

FTP

Most traditional web hosting providers let you upload files to their servers over FTP. To upload a Jekyll site to a web host using FTP, run the jekyll build command and copy the contents of the generated _site folder to the root folder of your hosting account. This is most likely to be the httpdocs or public_html folder on most hosting providers.

scp

If you have direct access to the deployment web server, the process is essentially the same, except you might have other methods available to you (such as scp, or even direct filesystem access) for transferring the files. Remember to make sure the contents of the generated _site folder get placed in the appropriate web root directory for your web server.

Rack-Jekyll

Rack-Jekyll allows you to deploy your site on any Rack server such as Amazon EC2, Slicehost, Heroku, and so forth. It also can run with shotgun, rackup, mongrel, unicorn, and others.