[2020] QUESTIOn

Game is designed for 8-player co-op. No more.

Originally posted by AleaToRy: I mean dedicated servirá 24/7

Same answer. Server is only designed to support 8-player co-op. This is not an MMO.
With good hardware you can get up to 20 players if you maintain it properly. With extreme hardware you can get up to 30. Those are exceptions to the rule though.

This isn't like Ark or Conan where the servers are designed to run 70+ players because it's a static map. 7 Days requires a lot more overhead than other games because of the nature of 3D Voxels, structural integrity, and a much more complex AI.

As Sylen says, the game's primarily designed around 1-8 player co-op. Further, Most people play with their friends in private servers (Dedicated or non) that are passworded so only they can enter. More still just play solo, Or pick up friends from the meeting room- but again, passworded and private.

Not many people host public dedicated servers that aren't PVP centric, because there's just no way to verify that anyone who joins doesn't come with ill intentions- And most people don't want to come back to a ransacked base, Or get screwed over by a random training zombies on them and other such stuff.

There are no Developer Owned dedicated servers like other games- Everything is player hosted.