You only need to define your publish settings once – you can then save them as a named “Publish Profile” to enable you to quickly re-use them again later.

Above I’ve created a “ScottGu Site” profile, and configured it to deploy via FTPS (a version of FTP that uses SSL) to a remote server.  To deploy over FTPS select the “FTP” node in the drop-down, and then prefix the server location you want to publish to with the “ftps://” prefix. 

Note that you can either re-enter your password each time you deploy – or save the password for future uses in a secure location (just click the “Save Password” checkbox to do this.