Deployment
Once you’ve designed your site and written your first page of content you want to get it out there for all the world to see.
Nesta will run on any web server that supports Sinatra. This gives you plenty of choice, but you don’t even need your own web server. We’re going to look at how to deploy Nesta on Heroku, or on your own server or slice.
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Running on Heroku
Heroku is a free service for hosting Ruby web applications. Running Nesta on Heroku is easy.
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Deploying with Vlad
Though Heroku is awesome, it isn’t for everybody. You get more flexibility if you deploy Nesta to your own web server.
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Publishing Articles with Git
This article will show you how to store the contents of your Nesta web site in a local Git repository, and publish changes by running a single git command. It’s not relevant if you’re deploying to Heroku.