I have now played Rust for over a year and I learnt to play on EUpure, and this has been my home ever since. Nearly 2800 hours played on this server. I have watched the game, server, admins, and community, change over the year, ups and downs.
The servers have improved with great reliablity now, and always great maintanace.
EUpure is a great server to learn to play the game, and especially good for building and experimenting knowing you won't lose evrything each time you log off like on pvp servers.
I personaly dislike the twiggers as i call them, PPL who come on for a couple of hours often right after wipe and build small or big twig structures in prime places and never or rarely come back. I find the inactivety wipe of players time being 2 weeks is far to long. Most months thats half a wipe. I do realise that PPL sometimes go on holiday for 2 weeks but i think if you do, you shouldn't be that bothered about playing that wipe. (Maybe lower inactiveity wipe time or add decay for twig, For the suggestion section)
The reason I have never applied to be admin is that I have a real job in real life, and come on server anytime I have off to play and relax, not work more and get stressed. I Have run clans, servers, websites etc before in the past probably 10 to 20 years ago. So I fully admire, support and respect any player that does become admin. (currently Warzone)
I find the EZshop very good and the memberships like VIP is amazing. One payment for life (lasts through wipes) and the portable recycler is invaluble.