I'll mention, because I'm still lurking around, that if you decide on a restart, I'd want to join back up again. It's a shaky proposal from me because after January or February or so, I dunno when my work will start up again. But I've got a better laptop now with a (hopefully) better wifi card; I may even be able to RP when I'm away for work.
If that's not in the cards, I think I'll just keep hanging around on the sidelines though, since there's more risk of me going away before getting too much done in the current thread if I join up in current standings.
Basically with new RPers and possibly a faster pace, I'd feel more comfortable using the time frame I've got for sure to commit to something like this. At the current pace, I don't trust myself to be able to accomplish anything significant long-term, and too much is up in the air.
I don't want to push the matter one way or the other, I'll roll with however you decide to do things, taking into account all the crashes and a potential server migration, but that's just my two cents, for what they're worth (probably worth around two cents, if I had to guess.)