almost 4 years ago - SylenThunder - Direct link
I recommend to avoid Survival Servers at all costs.

Unless you like horrendous server lag because it doesn't have enough hardware resources to operate properly.

Our group self-hosts though. Once we weighed the costs, it was about the same as 8 months worth of hosting for a single server, to get our own server hardware. With hosting 4 servers at the time, it paid itself off really quickly. Later we took the savings and got a second, and now are hosting 19 servers for 7 different games.

If you've got a halfway decent internet connection, and can afford the initial investment, it's totally the way to go.