[Rails] Newbie - deployment, hosting

Hello,

So, after learning ruby on rails and building a great app on my local machine, I need to find a host, deploy, and of course maintain a (staging and) production environment.

This all seems very confusing, and I'd like to learn this in an organized manner, step by step:

I've come across the names: Unicorn, nginx/apache, capistrano, Thin/mongrel, Engine Yard, EC2, etc.,

but coming from Microsoft.NET world, I don't understand the relations between them and what I really need to use.

Are there any good resources/tutorials you can direct me?

- How to select a host? 

- Do I need unix knowlodge? 

- How to deploy? 

- How to maintain?

- How suitable are the more "automatic" hosts such as Heroku for a web app?

Appreciate your time and help!

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