Make Github push to a remote server when it receives updates

Question

What is the set up for having Github automatically push any updates to a remote server?

This is useful for maintaining a codebase on Github, and having a website run

Answer 1

To illustrate Yervand's answer (upvoted), consider this peligangit as an example of a simple HTTP server (that you can install on your amazon-ec2 instance), which will:

• start a simple HTTP server.
• listen for a POST from a GitHub webhook
• it will pull down the new commits

That library would fetch, and then reset the main branch on origin/master.
That is one way to do it. (see githook.py)

def hard_reset_repos(self):
    self.server.source_repo.fetch([self.server.source_repo.origin])
    self.server.source_repo.reset(['--hard', self.server.source_repo.originMaster])