you should be running an official server 24/7, it's kind of lame to play lonely on your own server that nobody joins because the server list is empty all the time anyway.

edit: to add, besides my rant: reminds me of black prophecy which is currently in open beta, interesting how an indie team comes up with the same idea only on smaller scale (black prophecy is an MMOFPS) like a big competitor. Seems that not only the big guns know the recipe for success, but that the everyday indie developer do too!