We will probably end off a bit like China no doubt, there is servers by the bucket load over there, they have 10/100mbit connection anyhow (inside china its good speed anyhow - but outside its slower than 56k modem) and they "fight" as it were to provide stuff that other dont have - such as some are running with all 13 magics in place and loads of other stuff.
If We take Ragezone as probably the best Example with there Soma Server, they found, sorted and provided a server - not a single file to man nor beast (which is very good thing in my eyes) - the same can happen here if you like with MIR3 (sort of anyhow) - but then that takes away the fuction of the forum, to provide Help and advice for people setting up a Server.
The problem on the whole with MIR Servers is thus:
The files and instruction are readily available along with at least 2 forums that give you help every step of the way even if you struggle to switch on a pc - with enough reading anyone could in fact set up a server. This in turn means every day by the looks of it (mir2 anyhow) another servers comes online, another goes offline.
The question is - how do you manage this sort of thing? Well instead of a forum post for new servers, what about what they did with WoW servers? A Live script that checks the server and shows it status, maybe with some fancy code that says if the server is offline for 7 days, it gets removed from the list. At least with something like that in place - people could at least find a server thats live rather than trawl though the posts on here.
Next problem though (not easy to solve) is playing on a server that goes down in 6 months time? You could say that you wasted 6 months of your time playing on that server but I disagree to be honest. Private servers Provide a means to play a game which normally costs you money for free - why should they promise to stay up for the next 10 years? If you played a server on lets say 3-5x exp than if you lasted 6 months you shoudl have got to a high-ish level and experiecned the game yes?
Anyhow - its a no-win situation to be honest - you want a server that has 100+ people online and will be online for the next 2 years plus but your not prepared to help the host of these servers to help pay for it - costs which def are there no matter which way you look at it.
Oh well - roll on Wool Server files