1. IMAGE COMPRESSION, NOOBS, DO YOU USE IT? I'm bloody pissed at the moron that uploaded TWO images in a PROPRIETARY FORMAT which are OVER A MILLION BYTES each when they could have been UNDER THIRTY THOUSAND.
2. The Server should be separated from the console. The Server proper should run *without* a GUI, and the GUI (aka Management Console) only connects to it for management purposes. Which cleanly leads to --
3. Run as an NT service. This would help greatly for those that want to port over to *nix, as this is equivalent to a daemon.
tl;dr: You're doing it wrong. VERY wrong.