A lot of people just clone their code to the server and do "lein ring server-headless", (lein is the clojure build tool) which starts the server. You can also

A lot of people just clone their code to the server and do "lein ring server-headless", (lein is the clojure build tool) which starts the server. You can also package all your code and its dependencies into a single jar, then copy that jar to your to your provider and run it. It's pretty easy basically, and more advanced options are available, but even if it was more involved, I think the benefits you get with Clojure are big enough that I'd be willing to put up with quite a bit more difficulty than there is.