Great comments so far guys.
No issues with the servers.
And it is cryptonote based so tools / mining strategies based on crypto note will work well.
We are working on a pool as well. We havent verified the tools yet, but feel free to connect to it and try it out. Good way to see network hashing rates.
http://pool.crypto-me.com/If others are interested in setting up a pool, we can share a sanitized version of our config.json if there is interest