[decadentcactus]

Try out fabric, start really, really, really small.

I'll assume you use Git (if not, replace with your workflow). A super simple fabric script might simply be a `git push`. Instead of typing "git push origin master" in order to push to github/bitbucket/wherever, you'd run "fab deploy". Not going to go into the fabric specifics, but deploy() would pretty much just call git push.

Anyway, that may have confused you even more. My point is, start with something incredibly simple. After you've added git push, you can add to your fabfile.py to ssh into the server, and run git pull. Then add in something to run south migrations. Then collectstatic. Eventually you'll build to something that you can simply run, and everything will be updated and all good.