> Ah, but wait! Inevitably, you find a reason to expand to a second server

>> The real problem is that programmers have spent far too much time worrying about efficiency in the wrong places and at the wrong times; premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming.

-- Donald Knuth, Computer Programming as an Art (1974)

EDIT:

> Except if you quit or go on vacation, who will maintain this custom pile of shell scripts?

Honestly? I don't care. There is a reason why I quit and 99% of time it's the pay. And if the company doesn't pay me enough to bother then why should I? Why should I bother about some company future in the first place?