Hey, I've been looking for a good up-to-date server for quite some time, but they either die pretty quickly or they're non-existent.
I tried Kastia, Aries and Veracent. Kastia seems nice and all, but if you want to lvl fast, you need to spam votes and they're not on the current official version as they're only v179. Aries straight up s*cks. There are so many connection issues with this server and it seems like they didn't do anything with it. When it comes to Veracent, they're currently in beta phase and they're going to drop down all the rates until the official release by 3 times. Probably will stay with Veracent as it's the only one I know for now, that kinda meets my requirements.
What I'm looking for is an up-to-date server with nice exp rates. I'd play on lower rate servers, but I no longer have fun from grinding, thus I play on privates. Definitely not looking for all the old school servers.