[Irreverent]

Hate to say it, but there is pretty much every flavor of server available out there. Since this is your first post you may have not known that yet.

But, the broader the community grows, the looser the community gets. If you truely love EQ and want to help, it would be better served to find the server out there that is close/exact of what you want and assist(and become) staff there. Having 2 people deal with a server is better than 2 servers with only 1 each. Running a server is a lot more effort than you expect(and I will admit, still shocks me today because it only gets more and more).

So while its fun to run your own server and your purpose is just for you, then do it and make a private log in. But if you truely want to progress the community, find somewhere to conrtibute and collaboratively work towards making a tight server, EMU code fixes, DB updates, Quest creation, etc...