So, you're saying that you can buy cheap shared hosting with a Python server set up, where you only need to upload the files via FTP and it will just work?

Deploying with FTP is harder than deploying with git.

Maybe, but even so, learning to use FTP is a heck of a lot easier than learning to use git.

Don't deploy with git. Have a build process which isolates your VCS from your deployed code. fab/Makefile/etc. make this easy.

Deploying a PHP site can be done with the use of one or two apt-get commands. In Python I'd need to do that plus write WSGI-related stuff in a script, alter the Apache configuration, etc. Check out the instructions for Flask or Django if you don't know what I mean.

So you're saying you can FTP a full featured CMS to commodity hosting and it just works?