I started my own server in the summer of 2013. It was a Tekkit Lite 1.4.7 server griefing server where nukes where allowed. The server was called EngineerCraft but ya their isn’t really a story around that.
For my server i wrote tekkit-permittor, QuarryPermittor(Private plugin that I sold to fantasycraft) and some patches. I advertised it trought Tekkit server list and some forums.
But trust me getting players isn’t the problem. Making them stay is more it.
Omfg The rent. I hosted it on a oversold vps (that whas before I knew about OVH) and paid 60$/m for 2 cores and 6 GB of ram.
Player ranked up in time, but the ranks didn’t gave them any more profits. The community was pretty active. The raids where also pretty heavy. On Tekkit Lite it takes a while to get yourself setup. Most players that got raided rage quite, But ya smarter players don’t place anything on the same place. So I had an average player base of 30 players.
My experience ? STRESS, STRESS and STRESS. Lies and betrayal. I loved my server because of the technical side. Being a leader is not my job. (Funny enough are the people that don’t want the , lead the best, my community literary adored me 
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Screenshots? It was a griefing server XD or do you wanna see screenshots of the spawn griefed by team lixo?
I shut it down because I didn’t had enough time for it and because I was sick about the crap.
I do not plan to host a server again. I rather like to help other people with their server.