- As soon as you have more than 5 boxes, you need different tools for your everyday tasks, interactive SSH sessions just don't work. But you know that already.

- As soon as you have more than 5 boxes, you need different tools for your everyday tasks, interactive SSH sessions just don't work. But you know that already. - So you've found yourself SSH'ing into a particular box, because that's just the best way to work on a problem. Either it's a pet box (in which case it makes total sense to drop your dotfiles there), or it's a cattle box and you don't care about the trash you left behind, because autoscaling will clean it up for you.