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+title: Deploy with rclone
+description: Deploy your site with the rclone CLI.
+categories: []
+keywords: []
+aliases: [/hosting-and-deployment/deployment-with-rclone/]
+---
+
+## Assumptions
+
+- A web host running a web server. This could be a shared hosting environment or a VPS.
+- Access to your web host with any of the [protocols supported by rclone](https://rclone.org/#providers), such as SFTP.
+- A functional static website built with Hugo
+- Deploying from an [Rclone](https://rclone.org) compatible operating system
+- You have [installed Rclone](https://rclone.org/install/).
+
+**NB**: You can remove ``--interactive`` in the commands below once you are comfortable with rclone, if you wish. Also, ``--gc`` and ``--minify`` are optional in the ``hugo`` commands below.
+
+## Getting started
+
+The spoiler is that you can even deploy your entire website from any compatible OS with no configuration. Using SFTP for example:
+
+```txt
+hugo --gc --minify
+rclone sync --interactive --sftp-host sftp.example.com --sftp-user www-data --sftp-ask-password public/ :sftp:www/
+```
+
+## Configure Rclone for even easier usage
+
+The easiest way is simply to run `rclone config`.
+
+The [Rclone docs](https://rclone.org/docs/) provide [an example of configuring Rclone to use SFTP](https://rclone.org/sftp/).
+
+For the next commands, we will assume you configured a remote you named ``hugo-www``
+
+The above 'spoiler' commands could become:
+
+```txt
+hugo --gc --minify
+rclone sync --interactive public/ hugo-www:www/
+```
+
+After you issue the above commands (and respond to any prompts), check your website and you will see that it is deployed.