This is as simple as it gets. My school provides us with a personal storage that can be used for a webpage. Its the standard http://www.example.com/~studentname type deal. Previously, I would make changes to an index.html file and upload in using the ‘Secure File Transfer Client’ to my public_html folder. I’d hit refresh, and bingo.
I used ssh to login remotely edited the .html file with pico, and saved it. if I do a cat on the file after closing it, it’s still there. But my neither firefox nor google chrome reflect the recent changes. I’ve even deleted my cache to no avail.
So my school moved to a new web environment, and was no longer using the public_html directory to serve student and faculty webpages.