I know exactly what you mean. I banged out emacsformacosx.com in a weekend and wrote a real quick CGI program in Perl just so I didn't have to keep typing "make

I know exactly what you mean. I banged out emacsformacosx.com in a weekend and wrote a real quick CGI program in Perl just so I didn't have to keep typing "make" or something while I was writing the site (since I was using Template::Toolkit). I fully intended to move it to "something good" once it was done--there's no way CGI can work on a site with more than 10 users, right? Well, after 3 years it's still plain perl CGI. Every web request, forks, compiles the perl code, compiles the template code, stat()s over 3000 Emacs builds and then renders the page. There is no caching. It's wrong my almost every measure of modern web code design. And yet, it's still fast enough for the amount of traffic it gets. Oh, and it's still hosted by a computer in my house over my cable modem. Yes, it's a niche-y site, but it turns out that niche-y sites can still do a lot with a little, even on today's web.