Once you have zeroed in on your hosting solution, there could be several steps in your deployment process, from running regression tests to spawning background services.
The key to a successful deployment process is automation. Since deploying applications involves a series of well-defined steps, it can be rightly approached as a programming problem. Once you have an automated deployment in place, you do not have to worry about deployments for fear of missing a step.
In fact, deployments should be painless and as frequent as required. For example, the Facebook team can release code to production several times in a day. Considering Facebook's enormous user base and code base, this is an impressive feat, yet, it becomes necessary ...
