Recently had a power cut that killed the system, but rather than reinstall I poked around for a few hours until I discovered the bootloader's zImage had been corrupted. Copied another over from the original install image, and away it went.
When I find myself a decent job, I'll dedicate a more powerful system to the task, maybe virtualize a few of the servers.
Fun projects, although there are many head-hit-keyboard moments in setting it up.