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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 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.
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.
Rsync
If you have web hosting service you can probably deploy with 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 (I've been a happy customer since 2005).
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.
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.
git remote rename origin octopress
git remote add origin ssh://user@host.com/(output of pwd above)
git config branch.master.remote origin