Rsync almost a standard for remote syncing, but on Linux. The VPS this site is on is Linux, but I work on Windows 8 which in the end made syncing a bit more complicated to set up. The post is for everyone who will also want to sync his generated static website synchronized from Windows to Linux.
Hexo - static blog generator that I use - has built in support for rsync, but it will now work properly from Windows machine out of the box....
Static website generators are nothing new (I’ve even refactored one to PHP5 in 2007 when working for Spil Games). In the recent years static generators started to gain more traction, because not everything must be dynamic and if something is static, scalability and security are mostly no issue. For simple content websites and blog this is also cost effective, as you do not have to have a database and can host it almost everywhere (sometimes even for free)....