Deployment to shared host without SSH (PHP)

I have a Web-Application running on Shared Hosting. I need to Update the Project and I don't have SSH. All the Best-Practice-Solutions so far for SHared Hosting included SSH.

So does anyone have experiences with deployment without SSH开发者_如何学Go, not using manual uploading with FTP?

--dazz

edit: My dev environment is WinXP with XAMPP, I use SVN, hostet with XP-Dev. As I understand it, if I want to use rsync, I have to have SSH. So no rsynch either.

Have you considered using rsync if you are using a Unix system or the Windows implementation DeltaCopy? Unison might also be a good cross-platform alternative.