Since our server is going byebye at the end of the month I figured it might be worth finding another server to play on (that doesn't suck!).

So far one of the better ones seems to be http://oldschooldayz.net/ which has 2 private hive 1st person only servers with whitelisting and decent admins, normally at least one is full and there are normally always players up north.

I'm not playing much dayz these days but when I do this tends to be where I play.

I've basically said good bye to XSG for Day Z. I now use another private server myself.

I reckon the reason for your server going down is due to lack of funds? Last of the Living is considering opening a public hive hardcore server. We've attempted opening HC servers before, but pulled out due to low numbers and several dedicated HC servers already in operation.

Has the interest for DayZ within XSG dwindled to such a point that few bother playing, or is this something that would be interesting for you guys?

I think mainly the last bad patch killed it off for most of us m8 some turned to Arma 3 and other games.