We're solving some of these issue with Netlify (https://www.netlify.com https://www.netlify.com), since we'll run your Octopress (or Grunt, Middleman, Jekyll, D

We're solving some of these issue with Netlify (https://www.netlify.com https://www.netlify.com), since we'll run your Octopress (or Grunt, Middleman, Jekyll, Docpad, etc) builds on our servers when you push to Github. You'll still want a local Octopress install running when you're really developing, but at least with this setup you don't need anything installed to add new blog posts or edit content. You can even fix a quick typo from your phone through the Github web UI.