--- title: Manual Deployment permalink: /docs/deployment/manual/ --- 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](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-rsync-to-sync-local-and-remote-directories-on-a-vps). ## 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://.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](https://github.com/adaoraul/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](https://github.com/rtomayko/shotgun/), [rackup](https://github.com/rack/rack), [mongrel](https://github.com/mongrel/mongrel), [unicorn](https://github.com/defunkt/unicorn/), and [others](https://github.com/adaoraul/rack-jekyll#readme).