Well you are right, there is stuff out there, but its not in one dead easy package. You kind of are talking about Rails, git, and capistrano. Surely any versi

Well you are right, there is stuff out there, but its not in one dead easy package. You kind of are talking about Rails, git, and capistrano. Surely any version control system can clone code but I know git so I'll talk about how setting up repos is as simple as git clone, and then there's the greatness of http://github.com http://github.com Rails because you can use git to clone a starting environment with things like authlogic and then have clear development/testing/production environments. Then use http://www.capify.org http://www.capify.org (which is defaulted to rails) to deploy to a staging/production path. With capify you really do literally change ONE command to deploy to a staging area, stop/start your application, and/or do rollbacks. You can technically deploy any application (PHP) with capistrano but it's kind of a pain (I have done it, and you need to install and understand ruby). The point is, yes it's a pain in the ass, but you really should just run Linux :p Command line is your friend. Linux, git, github, capistrano, ruby/rails, passenger = pretty decent! Am I missing anything?