My first server is still my existing server and its helped me come such a long way.
my daughter wanted a server we could play on so I started a small private one, hosted locally, as time went on a couple of other people found the server and started to play on there as well which was nice.
eventually I bought an online server to speed things up and moved the old map I had online, this was in 2012, i've kept adding cool bits and adventure plugins to the server to make it a proper adventure game.
the community ive found waxes and wanes now and then - getting popular then easing off as people do their own thing, but there are a load of guys and girls who ive known for 3 years from all over the world who still pop back and say hello even if they don't play that much anymore. what a great community. its great to see people grow up on the server - people who started when they were 13 are now off taking exams and leaving school,
Through the whole time ive kept the old server map - ive added new worlds and servers etc but all the time kept the same old main map where I first spawned and climbed out of the sea to make a shelter 3 years ago, I think its wonderful to go back and see the old towns and builds we all made, and the outposts of the wars and remember all the good times.. players can still now login and go and find their old towns they may have thought lost,
