I think the real lesson in here is that the key is the deployment tools - or rather the fact that you need to spend time setting those up as an integral part of

I think the real lesson in here is that the key is the deployment tools - or rather the fact that you need to spend time setting those up as an integral part of your workflow - it's not something to do "some day later". This can be as simple as some bash scripts cobbled together - or whatever you automation language of choice is - but it's an aspect of web development that is simply generally ignored completely.