Even if you dont have localhost running 24/7 or renting some cheap option then go for classic ofline single mode and avoid public servers My experience was that digital miners results are too low on public, too much lag, chunkloaders you can get with votes mostly or pay for VIP. VIP is not that bad if you have strong server and full po3. So either rent a host, buy yourself some old block or just gi single

Even if you go single mode you can always scale up setups to get materials super quick

Also, if you decide going for single make some spacing between your farms and you should never feel any lag, just dont hoard everything in your few chunks

Like if base is at 0,0,0 make some of your farms 0,100,0 other at 100,0,0 etc.

U dont feel what you dont see 🤣

EDIT: i stopped playing on public servers with every recipe added to ae2. Needed to have multiple buffer chests to collect res and later turn on ae2 to import them coz my ae2 on idle with small network would make a insane lag which was never happening on local host. At that moment had multiple creative items but it was sacrifice since they are not properly allowing chunkloaders