Over the past few years we’ve seen the rise of ‘serverless’ (aka ‘cloud’) platforms (such as Cloudflare Pages, AWS Amplify, Google Cloud, and GitHub Pages, etc) become increasingly common due in part to their attractive and competitive pricing (often free for smaller sites), excellent performance (often paired with a CDN), complementary services (functions, streaming, image conversion/optimization, etc), and complete lack of server management.
Seeing as Elements is billed as a modern web design tool, it would be fantastic to see serverless workflows (deploy/publish[1]) and features (functions, headers, redirects, etc) supported directly within Elements.
[1] Sites on these platforms are often deployed (aka published) via GitHub instead of (S)FTP. While these workflows may be slightly more complex to set-up (FTP can also be a massive pain) they do provide additional benefits such as automatically deploying to CDNs around the world (better performance), as well as the ability to quickly and easily ‘roll back’ a site to a previous version should the need arise.
If these capabilities are of interest to you, please consider adding your voice to the feature request. 