I think thanks have got to go to wibble for his fantastic work on hosting the system over a long period.

The system has been stable as, great uptimes and basically just worked -- thanks mate!

I would not be worried about imaging the server, its not required. The whole setup packages up quite well and can be deployed in a vm. Shadow dev copies have been run up in digital ocean from time to time, and its also been proven to operate nicely in a dirt cheap openvz setup, think lowendbox.com. For anyone interested in taking this on, I am prepared to assist in the moving the code (PM me).