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title: Deploying
date: July 18 2011
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Here are some nice and easy ways to deploy your Octopress blog.

## Github Pages
Hosting your blog with Github's [Pages service](pages.github.com) is free and allows custom domains. To deploy you simply push your repository to Gihub.
This is a great way to host a personal blog, or even a multi-author blog, where contributions can be handled with pull requests and commit access.

[Deploying to Github Pages »](/docs/deploying/github)

## Heroku
Like Github Pages, Heroku is also free, allows custom domains, and uses a git based deployment workflow. Heroku is a bit simpler to use and your blog repository remains private.

[Deploying to Heroku »](/docs/deploying/heroku)

## Rsync
If you have web hosting service you can probably deploy with [Rsync](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rsync) which is brilliantly fast, syncing new and changed files through SSH.
If your host doesn't offer SSH access, and you're looking for one that does, check out [Dreamhost](http://www.dreamhost.com/r.cgi?109007) (I've been a happy customer since 2005).

[Deploying with Rsync »](/docs/deploying/rsync)

## Host your own remote repository

If you want to set up a private git repository on your own server, here's how you'd do it. You'll need SSH access to follow along.

```sh
ssh user@host.com
mkdir -p git/octopress.git
cd git/octopress.git
git init --bare
pwd  # print the working directory, you'll need it below.
logout
```

The origin remote currently points to the Octopress project on Github but you'll want to point it to your remote repository.

```sh
git remote rename origin octopress
git remote add origin ssh://user@host.com/(output of pwd above)
git config branch.master.remote origin
```