Better update routine?

I get what you mean, but FTP? No.
That technology should be buried already.

Really? Why?

Do you mean because FTP is insecure you should use SFTP or FTP-SSL, either way they are all FTP just with encryption on top. Or do you mean FTP as a whole, because if so, what would you do to upload, say, a google verification file or similar to the web server?

Not contradicting you in any way, just curious as to the reason for your anti FTP stance.

Thanks in advance for any elaboration,

Paul.