Building a server or just giving up

I and my friend are building a server after being avid players of a DarkRP server that I will not name and we thought since it gets around 40 players per day and it had little to no addons or being a good quality server with a lot of lag we decided to make our own and honestly its doing pretty good we have a bunch of addons and the only problem we have is getting dedicated players which from being new to this forum and seeing a lot of people saying the reason a lot of people dontlike it anymore is because the chances of getting dedicated players is hard especially if its in a larger language community (e.g English servers, Uk servers) and that is true so to make a good server you have to be very dedicated to it and be willing to spend money