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The page just says better deployment; but what exactly does this do?

"Deploy your apps from GitHub, Bitbucket or your own repositories to one or many servers in one click."

For example, I've got a python script that uses SSH to log into my servers and manually git pull from a master repository. I imagine that this service would replace that script.

and charge $29/month for it?

It does much more than that. Some of the things:

* Synchronization of changes through FTP/SFTP/S3/Rackspace Cloud Files

* Pushing your stuff to Heroku, even for SVN repos

* Release notes

* Permission management for deployments for teams

* Email notifications, atom feed for recent deployments

* Automatic deployments on pushes/commits/commit commands

* Integrations with 3rd party services, web hooks

* Simultaneous deployments to a ton of servers at once

* Almost no configuration necessary

The website says "70000" companies trust your product, with a list of the companies! Is that true? 70k company users already? Or is this something else being counted here?

Based on the phrasing, Beanstalk has 70,000 customers not dploy.io

And dploy.io is a Beanstalk's deployment engine set free.

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