I gotta admit, servers are growing like mushrooms.

4 years ago, it wasn't hard at all to run a server. Just run Jaymod, classic popular maps and be sure to have at least 20-24 slots.
This was possible because a 24 slot server was considered big (huge) (and expensive). Also, ET had more popularity back then. Well, ET is still known, but CoD popped in and well... you know the story.

Nowadays, you see servers with 40 - 60 - 64 slots. HAH, why is that so , how did that come about?
A 24 slot server is tiny and needs to be full or no one plays on it.
I also noticed that on these 40 slot servers, admins still allow bots even when there are like 16 players playing. As if 8 v 8 isn't that much at all ...

hmpf, I miss good old times where 12 v 12 was epic