Your friend. Your home.

They do keep wiping the official servers, so we have three options:

1) Keep playing on official servers knowing of the eventual wipes and keep rebuilding. While we have to rebuild, we get good at it while creating new alliances and, of course, new enemies.

2) Join a community server that does not wipe. These servers will be hard to get started in as they already have a large playerbase that has a head start. Good thing is that there's more people and no more wipes.

3) Make our own private server. I would not be able to host it due to not having enough bandwidth in my apartment. That means we would have to find a hosting service, then pay them, if there even is one. We could also get our bases back as the hurtworld devs saved everything and are willing to give the world files back via FTP.

My vote would go to number two. We have a sizable group and the map stays the same (I believe) so we already have the experience and places we know that are good spots.