Yep, everything's going good now, and there's been a few people using the pool - very much appreciated.
This is a test really, getting used to setting it up and learning a bit about it.
I've invested in some dedicated hardware - dual Xeon procs, super-micro server board, OCZ SSDs in raid 10, 12gb mem to start, it'll be a good project for my first real dedicated server ... more to come in the future.
Node address is:
http://207.81.46.186:9332 if anyone wants to join the pool for a bit.
Any feedback is appreciated.