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Asked: 2026-05-18T06:48:54+00:00

Hi We’re a small web development company with 3 Lunarpages dedicated Plesk/Apache/MySQL/CentOS servers hosting

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We’re a small web development company with 3 Lunarpages dedicated Plesk/Apache/MySQL/CentOS servers hosting around 70 websites each. We connect via ftp and each server houses our sites in folders i.e. /var/www/vhosts/[domain]/httpdocs

One of our programmers has moved overseas, and for now our “version control” is to just have him download the latest versions of any files he’s working on from the ftp before he starts work. Not ideal, and doesnt allow us to work concurrently on one site, and we’ve already had problems with him overwriting my changes and so on.

I’ve been looking for a way to integrate version control into what we’re doing.

I’ve looked at online services like beanstalkapp, codesion etc but they either restrict the number of repositories on an account (we have a lot of sites) or they limit how many ftp servers you can connect to.

So my current thinking is to install git (I’m fairly UNIX-savvy) on the dedicated servers and use a front end client (mac and pc) to check out manage changes.

Does anyone have experience or recommendations on the best way to implement version control in our situation?

Many thanks in advance

Lucas

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  1. Editorial Team

    First of all, I’d switch to ssh/scp instead of ftp. ssh is much more secure.

    Once ssh is in place, it’s pretty simple to install git on those machines. You can do the checkouts using a cron job to update the sites (I suppose you don’t want a .git directory in yout httpdocs).

    Advantage of git (or mercurial for that matter) is that your colleague does not have to be on line for every commit he makes, which will make the change history much more concise.

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