diff --git a/deployment-script.sh b/deployment-script.sh
index fa90f7c..b3869ec 100644
--- a/deployment-script.sh
+++ b/deployment-script.sh
@@ -17,8 +17,6 @@ echo -n "`find -name "*.php" -or -name "*.html" -or -name "*.css" -or -name "*.s
 echo "Checking run-once script..."
 echo "Setting permissions."
 chmod +x run-once-script.sh
-#run the script only if it has changed since the last time it was checked, save a checksum of it to /var/www/git/run-once to compare next time
-echo -ne "import os, sys\nif \"`sha256sum run-once-script.sh`\" == \"`cat ../run-once`\":\n print \"File has not changed. Aborting.\"\n sys.exit()\nelse:\n print \"File has changed. Calculating checksum...\"\n os.system(\"sha256sum run-once-script.sh > ../run-once\")\n print \"\"\"Executing...\n==========\"\"\"\n os.system(\"./run-once-script.sh\")\n print \"\"\"==========\nDone.\"\"\"" | python
 
 # The status page is not just symlinked like the other files just to have a backup in case something goes wrong.
 # Not like that ever happened before....
diff --git a/run-once-script.sh b/run-once-script.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index 212376c..0000000
--- a/run-once-script.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-rm /var/www/strassenkind.ip/*.conf
-rm /var/www/strassenkind.ip/index.php
-rm /var/www/strassenkind.ip/style.css
-
-# leave this here for whenever this script is altered to be empty
-exit 0