This is how to get more people on server. at first you server wont have anyone on so that when more people come on your server they wont want to stay because they feel it isnt as good since there the only one on. the best way is to get people on and give them a reason to stay without feeling lonley, this is pretty hard since there isnt many ways of doing this. i recomend somthing to look at such as pixel art its good for them and they can maybe copy the art into there faction if its faction server. also somthing fun for them to do such as a parkour or a maze which is the most common for a single player minigame. and after you have a couple people on who wanna stay they might just invite there friends and they will think well im going to stay because my friend likes it maybe i will to which is a ever lasting thing of the friends having there friends come on and that goes on and on. the next way is a youtube video. this normally helps if the person doing this video is pretty popular because thats more traffic to the video which is more traffic to your server. SUCCESS! after this you'll be starting to grow a little maybe 5-15 people on now at this point your going to want to set up some sort of voting like on planetminecraft which will grow as your players vote and go higher up the server list letting more people see you server, thats then even more people on your server and the more there is the easier to grow. now this may not be as easy as it sounds but keep trying at the point of this post, are server is 9days old and in the mornings we get 6-10 people on and in the day about 6-8 and night time about 6-10 again (uk). so i hope this would have helped and if you wanna see my server please check out this IP: prison.tryden.net