|D*R| and |d*D| ran around 10 servers aswell back in the days, all dedicated servers and it sure costed some big money back then. All dedicated servers.
Currently the best servers out there are the TBBC ones and the one which Ayleia runs, Olafs servers are somewhat alright aswell since those are running a modified servermod version. Which reminds me, if needed I might be able to ask someone special to host a server just for the night avpgalaxy runs its gamenight. It will be fast and prettymuch no lag at all. One of the best ones you can find out there these days. ^^