@Simeon I see from other threads that you’ve been working on getting your first successful provision and deploy. It sounds like you have your setup and config all working now but the deploy is just hanging on this final task Reload php-fpm.
If you haven’t tried it already, I’d recommend running server.yml and deploy.yml on a completely fresh VPS/server now that your configs are sorted out. When users have various failed iterations on a given server then encounter an obscure problem (like this thread), the problem is often absent when the users just run their latest setup on a fresh server.
If that doesn’t resolve it, I also noticed this…
Could you tell us whether you have the Reload php-fpm problem on a fresh DO droplet? Could you also tell us if this is Ubuntu 14.04 or something else?