Going from local set up to staging / live, what's the process?

I was sure I saw an article in the docs somewhere about this, but I can't find anything specific about it now, despite my best searching efforts.

I have a site running locally, it's time to out it up on a staging server for review.

Surely I can't just FTP everything up there? can I?

Does anyone have a link to a knowledge base article about this or somesuch?

Many thanks!