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Another great tool that hasn't been mentioned yet is Fabric. Combined with a VCS it makes pushing changes to the server an absolute breeze. With the simple fabfile shown below I only need to do "fab update" to push all of the latest code to the server:

  #!/usr/bin/env python
  from fabric.api import *

  env.hosts = ['example.com']

  def update():
	  local("./manage.py validate")
	  local("./manage.py test core")
	  with cd("/var/www/example"):
  		  sudo("git pull origin master", user="www-data")
		  sudo("./manage.py migrate --all", user="www-data")
  		  sudo("touch apache/django.wsgi", user="www-data")