Deploying your application to a custom server

At the time of writing, deploying a Meteor application to either a hosting service or to your own personal machine is a pretty hefty task. There are versioning issues with deployment, and most hosting services are still in the early stages of supporting Meteor bundles.

That being said, Meteor is working on a really slick deployment service (nicknamed Galaxy), and we have a pretty great third-party plugin available with us called Meteor Up (MUP), which was developed by the incomparable Arunoda Susiripala at http://meteorhacks.com. Let's walk you through deploying our Meteor application to a custom server using MUP.

The server setup

The server from which you'll be hosting your application needs to have the latest stable version of Node.

To Install Node.js, go to http://nodejs.org/ and follow the instructions for either Linux or Mac OS X installation.

MUP will install the correct MongoDB version that we need on our remote server, so we don't need to...