MVC5 Changes on Server not being reflected - asp.net-mvc

Whenever I update one of my views on the server, for example if I have the words "Hello World" printed out and then I go change it to "Hi World" it doesn't reflect.
The old text is still there. The weird part is even if I delete the whole view file the page still loads. I feel that something is being cached but I do not know what or where to look for it. On my local machine it all works, in develop and release mode, but on the server when I push the published version of the code, the changes don't take, any help as to why is most appreciated.
This is on a shared host server
EDIT:
If I take all the files and move them to a temp folder, load the site so it crashes, and then move the files back to original location then the changes kick in.
This is not a browser cache, I ensured by deleting any and all history and even loading it on a new browser.
The files are 100% updated because I updated them directly on the server to ensure its not something to do with publishing.

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(But once you do that, you should consider that you also anonymous access to that folder - unless you enable authentication, so watch out for "secret" contents of the logfiles that you might expose? just a thought.)
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