No comment on your particular example, but the opposite approach is more common than I'd personally like and also not ideal -- if you're doing anything nontrivi

No comment on your particular example, but the opposite approach is more common than I'd personally like and also not ideal -- if you're doing anything nontrivial it's probably worth doing a back of the envelope calculation to ensure you have enough disk, memory, and network throughput for your favorite solution to handle the expected load.