Nostalrius Begins - Quality wow vanilla realm (1.12)

So, I've been looking around for a high population private server and heard Nostalrius is one of the best.I'm just looking for a vanilla server to play out some nostalgia and back when I considered the game to be at it's best. I do have a few questions:

-Which faction has the highest population?
-Is Blizzard trying to shut down Nostalrius? (highly speculative)

Alliance has a slightly higher pop but it's not noticeable IMO. It's doubtful that nostalrius will be shutting down.

pantsman27 wrote:Alliance has a slightly higher pop but it's not noticeable IMO. It's doubtful that nostalrius will be shutting down.

Thanks I appreciate it. Where are the servers hosted? If not in the US do you think I will have a rough time maintaining a decent connection?

Pottu wrote:
PvP player census:
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=3641
PvE player census:
viewtopic.php?f=71&t=24560

Thanks for the info, Pottu.