What is the easiest way to deploy from GitHub to a web server?

Two possibilities come to mind. 1) You have a third service sitting in between GitHub and your server that clones your repository and deploys (can also test) to any of your servers. This is helpful when you deploy to multiple servers or have some more complicated steps involved. You separate the concerns which makes maintenance easier.   You can use a self-hosted or SaaS solution for that. Jenkins would come to mind as a great self-hosted solution, Hosted solutions would be: https://www.codeship.com (which I am a founder of) http://www.deployhq.com/ http://www.cloudbees.com/ https://semaphoreapp.com/ https://circleci.com/ 2) You use the github webhook capabilities to call a specific url which triggers a deployment inside this server. Depending on the technology you use there are various possibilities  This is a little security by obscurity, but can be done in a way that is still secure and works great for a small number of servers. In the script just clone the repository and either use symlinks to change the code that should be used (PHP) or reconfigure and restart the server that sits in front of your application server (Nginx & Ruby for example)

I'm the founder of https://commando.io and recently we announced an integration with GitHub via a service.  The integration allows you to run executions on servers when you push to a GitHub repo. This is a perfect opportunity to automatically run deployment scripts when you push code. An execution is a script you write inside of Commando.io that can be written in bash, perl, python, ruby, go, or node.js. To read more, and see an example execution script of running `git pull`, see our blog post announcement: http://blog.commando.io/run-executions-via-github-push/

Hi, I'm one of the Beanstalk developers. Recently we launched a new service providing our deployment tools to GitHub, BitBucket and self-hosted repositories - check out http://deploybot.com

I’ve written a little PHP script that helps with FTP deployments. It is called PHPloy and is tightly-coupled with Git to determine what which files where edited/added/deleted and uploads them accordingly. You put your FTP details in a deploy.ini file and run just a command to deploy:     phploy You can also deploy to multiple servers at once. And if you have multiple servers configured, you can select to deploy to one of them like this:     phploy --server staging There is more that can be done – check it out on Github: https://github.com/banago/PHPloy