Hi Joey,
One thing I think is important to point out is that Kitely developed it own cloud-based Advanced Inventory and Advanced Assets systems that replace the regular OpenSim ones. This enables Kitely to start worlds much faster than they can start with regular OpenSim.
You can try this yourself: merge the assets in your 36 regions into a 16 region area, save that to an OAR file using the --all option (so all the regions will be saved) and then use that OAR file to create a 16-region Kitely world. I think you'll be positively surprised by the improvement in startup speed.