Sounds good, the only drawback is that rsync will regularly have to re-transfer it all. Unless we apply the 3 way trick keeping a separate copy for minified and non-minified to use as reference during the transfer.. but let's see first if rsync really needs some help.

Also this would imply that every day in which some blog is published, the whole site is non-minified until midnight. Might as well not minify at all?
Is there not an option to minify in a "lighter" way? AFAIK we don't have much comments and other cruft to take out of the pages, and httpd already can apply gzip.