Back in the early 2000s there were companies who offered server for quake3 / Counterstrike but these were usually rented to clans who wanted a private low laten

Back in the early 2000s there were companies who offered server for quake3 / Counterstrike but these were usually rented to clans who wanted a private low latency server for practise or competition to play against other clans. In these cases it was pretty common for clan members to divide out costs amongst themselves and basically every serious clan had it's own private server. I wonder if the non competitive nature of minecraft makes this more difficult because there is no advantage to be gained by paying for a server beyond being able to control the rules.