As a "hey I'm back" peace offering, I give digibutter.nerr the best Minecraft server ever http://atleast11mines.proboards.com/ (That's the forum URL, not the server IP, IP's on the forum). This server is 24/7 with hardly any lag whatsoever, pirate friendly, and pretty lonely usually. It got a fresh new map for the current update so it's near abandoned right now. oh, also, working Nether Portals. Also the admins are bros. I'm an admin there myself, basically second-in-command. So, you know, have fun with this. I try to whore it out on /v/ all the time but that usually ends up fruitless. But yeah, this server IS nice and has a lot of awesome mods (or at least WILL once all the mods are updated).
spoken like a true poet