It's not necessarily bad, but there's plenty of steps to automate away, with two ideas: * You can use your production server as a "git server" without basicall

It's not necessarily bad, but there's plenty of steps to automate away, with two ideas: * You can use your production server as a "git server" without basically any overhead * You can set up scripts that run on git events. Basically, you can push directly to your production server and then deploy using that those event listeners Here's a better explainer https://tqdev.com/2018-deploying-with-git-push-to-production https://tqdev.com/2018-deploying-with-git-push-to-production As for having to reboot your server every time, I have no idea, although that seems like a long time. I'd expect less than a minute, but I don't know much about django