Devin Price always comes up with handy tips for tinkering developers. In this post, he puts together some nice tips for some common WordPress tasks you may encounter when managing a site on a Digital Ocean server.
Most of the tasks are more general server than actual WordPress things — like rsync and scp. But they’re still good application specific tips.
On one side, this doesn’t seem so hard; on another, having to do this kind of stuff frequently is also why I like other people to manage my server for me. I’ve recommended to people before to use something like Digital Ocean for dev sites too, and if you do then you’ll want to check this post out as well.