Its amazing to see people take this much intrest in thier servers. Most people just slap up something stock using a guide like mine and say "Cool Server Now Open" and its gone in a day cause that person ran it from thier home computer and they shut it down at night to save power. There is no comunication between players and Server OP's, as thier are no websites, and even if thier is a site, its just phpbb2 with 40 boards and 0 threads.
Now this one on the other hand is taking a stong business approach, which is a must if you want a great server. Look at PEQ for example. Great site, great crew, great player base. The only thing that cause this type of server to go down is lack of funding for dedicated boxes and lack of people to help run and maintain the game. So long as your team can afford to keep it going on your own for awhile, you should be fine. Dont go for donations just yet cause it will be more of a pain in the ass then anything else, plus you got to have players trust you and be grateful for what you have put together for them before they will donate.
Looks like a great set up though, but like everyone else says. Its not the <--====Name Here===--> that helps bring in people, its the quality of what is behind the name. Keep your name Normal but advertise and entice people to come to your server. Build a population and you could have "Crap Server" and people will still play on it.
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