I have a pretty large web site with about 400 files after I precompile
it. When I use the VS2005 Publish tool and publish to an FTP site,
which is running IIS, most of the attempts hang after about 10
minutes. Sometimes it works; sometimes it doesn't. Most times it
doesn't.

What is really aggravating is that I get no error message from VS2005
when the publish utility stops. It just stops. The only way I can tell
that something is wrong is if I wait 30 minutes and the activity light
on my modem stops blinking.

There has got to be a better way than this.

Even the copy web site tool doesn't work that well. I'll publish the
site to a local directory. Then I'll try to copy all the files in the
site, including subdirectories and the files and subdirectories below
those. Sometimes it reports that it copied all the files. But when I
look on the site, files are missing. Again, no error messages
reported.

Is it the FTP server, the VS2005 product, what? It's very
disappointing and a waste of time.