[Xymak1y]

The issue here is that there is still numerous web hosts who don't grant you SSH access, so you're not able to set up any git repository there anyway and are still stuck with FTP. Hopefully this will go away soon, or at least more in the direction of Heroku and the likes.

[chris_j]

Which web hosts are they and what advantages do they have over web hosts that do grant ssh access?

[Xymak1y]

Take Hetzner (large German provider) as an example - while they do offer managed servers and root servers, those are much more expensive. I'm not advocating the use of such products, but merely pointing out that they're still around a lot.