https://www.gametracker.com/search/cod4/
I always use gametracker to find a server. You can filter with 'promod' as your keyword to find servers with it in the name and in your region.
If you're in the US I know NamelessNoobs hosted a few servers that were popular, at least they were a few months ago haha
Yes, I don't think using a cracked server would do us any good, since cheaters could evade guid bans this way. The cheapest place I can find it is here: http://www.cjs-cdkeys.com/products/Call-Of-Duty-4-Modern-Warfare-CD-Key.html
For anybody who needs this too, I found a solution myself, just follow the link below.
https://linuxgsm.com/lgsm/cod4server/
I will keep this post here, I never found a post regarding this subject on this subreddit, so it might come in handy for a lot of people who are trying to get their own COD4 server to run without the need of an expensive Windows license for their server OR rent expensive Windows servers on hosting websites.
You can buy cod4 from : https://www.instant-gaming.com/en/1620-buy-key-steam-call-of-duty-4-modern-warfare/
You will get steam key and you put in the steam key and it's done you have the game (thats how I got it)
You can try searching for a CD game in your local shop maybe close due to Corona rn tho CD cod usually around 10 eur in my place
BTW after you buy the game you still have to install promod wich you can download from here: https://cod4x.me/
Thanks! Let me know how it played, because I only played on it 1v1 and 2v2 a few times. Never played 5v5.
I also setup an Promod 24/7 Watertower CoD4 server on: /connect 145.90.84.11:28960
Oh aerox, that's not a nice way to ask :)
Are you referring to the concurrent users? Unfortunately the majority of users do not have CoD4 on steam, so if you check on steam you only get 400-500 concurrent players. Fortunately there are dedicated servers on CoD4 so most are visible via Gametracker.
https://www.gametracker.com/search/cod4/?&sort=3&order=DESC
Since Game Gametracker filters out the bots, the numbers you see inside servers are players. If you sort them descending and then add them all up which I just did for your sake, I got roughly 6,600 concurrent players. I missed out a lot of servers with less players because the difference is a couple hundred at best.
You can see the concurrent players for the other CoD PC titles because they were released via steam so you can check them through steam stats. No dedicated servers.
The rest of the players I speak about outside of CoD4 servers who miss CoD4 (of which I have not given a number) are those who comment about this on CoD4 youtube videos, forums, gaming servers, articles and so forth.. I've been watching for several years so I've come across a ton of comments regarding wanting CoD4 back (probably because it's the only MW in the series with dedicated servers, if not MW2 would probably be the preferred game).
Cod 4 is not dead but i Live in Germany and I dont want to risk pirating a game no fun in that. There is still more people playing cod 4 then mw2 or bo2 and stuff!
https://www.gametracker.com/search/cod4/?searchipp=50
Just look at that link that I send u and it will prove that cod 4 is not dead!