For anyone not in the know, you can check how many hours you've put into a specific server on Battle Metrics: https://www.battlemetrics.com/servers/ark?dir=asc&feature%3A8=True%2C+official&page=1&sort=rank
For the small tribes that like playing together and have been sick of new players blocking spawn points you could download the server files when available and then club together to upload the files onto a private server.