Amen brother. I've worked at a place where our 'deployment script' logged into each of our production servers and ran svn up in working copies. This company han

Amen brother. I've worked at a place where our 'deployment script' logged into each of our production servers and ran svn up in working copies. This company handled thousands of financial transactions every day. At my current company we have a decent sysadmin, so things are a bit more sensible (a combination of svn export, running tests, then an rsync to our production box.) Don't be saddened, be angry. When you do start doing stuff on the web, do it properly so other people don't have to eventually maintain the nightmare you might have created!