How do I advertise my server?

Growing a server can be hard from the get-go, and you will probably be overloaded by a ton of places to advertise on or where you can spread awareness of your server. Signing up to 100 Minecraft Server Lists is less likely to get you anywhere as you will have to keep all of these maintained, and especially sites asking for votes to rank your server higher are nice to use; just don’t go overboard.

In general, the top-rated Minecraft Server Lists, Minecraft Server-specific Sub Reddits and similar places will be some of the best ways to spread awareness about your server. But above all, word of mouth is most likely going to be the best chance in consistently growing your server. Getting a single player on your server is a good starting point, but what about their friends, and their friends, etc etc. If you can get your players to like what you are doing on your server, it will only be a matter of time before they tell their friends, thus giving you consistent growth in your server.