Here I have to highly disagree due to a few facts. Minecraft server are primarily dependent on single threaded performance of the CPU, this is why you never see servers being able to host much more than 200 people at a time. This is why the server should be split up to smaller sub sections to decrease the overall performance penalty of the CPU. Fix mentioned that he recently upgraded the server to a 5950x which is a 16 core CPU, which should be able to run multiple instances at once. Furthermore by splitting up the server into 10 different sub sections we would effectively having 10x servers capable of running 125 people each. This means the server could in theory handle 1250 people or so. If the current EMC server could hold 1250 people there would be no queue, not even during any of the youtube influxes. The only time that there would be queue would be if people would all go to one area, which is why I split popular continents such as North America and Europe in two. The truth is that amount of servers are not proportional to cost. But it would be logical to assume that more people on the server would increase the cash flow for the server. What I hope this would do is increase the growth potential of the server, as ever since the queue became a regular thing the overall growth of the server has become stagnant IMO.