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Depends on what your needs are. For example if you are working on a team, Vercel* automatically deploying feature branches is extremely useful. Pushing a new blog post to your personal site? FTP is probably fine.

*Can't speak to Meli as I've never used it.

git push = automated build and test (eg. Typescript codebases), deploy, SSL cert setup, CDN asset hosting

It's effortless.

Like how it looks locally? Git commit, git push. Done.

Not sure how many times I was on the phone with a client who wanted a few quick updates. I just edited the repo on github, checked it in and BOOM! Told the client the changes were live while we were still on the phone.

That kind of ease of use does wonders for your customer service numbers.

You're comparing a protocol to a set of automation tools. It may or may not be an upgrade. If you want something to handle builds, SSL, routing rules, etc ... then yes.