---
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][], such as SFTP
- A functional static website built with Hugo
- Deploying from an [Rclone][] compatible operating system
- You have [installed Rclone][]

**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 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 build --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][] provide [an example of configuring Rclone to use SFTP][].

For the next commands, we will assume you configured a remote you named `hugo-www`.

The above 'spoiler' commands could become:

```txt
hugo build --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.

[Rclone docs]: https://rclone.org/docs/
[Rclone]: https://rclone.org
[an example of configuring Rclone to use SFTP]: https://rclone.org/sftp/
[installed Rclone]: https://rclone.org/install/
[protocols supported by rclone]: https://rclone.org/#providers