I understand and respect your opinion. This particular server was meant to stay "inside our house" only anyway, it was just meant for me and my son. The only thing what we wanted to use this server for is to have an easy mean to try out unknown ships and factions and to find out what it is to have, to maintain and experiment with a base W/O the burden of flying hours for gathering all the needed stuff.
I realise very well that if I would make it public, it always would lack the one thing that makes Discovery fun to play on: a big live population!