@sambolearyfirst there is a new option in the game settings which you need to turn to On to have persisistent servers not anymore greyed out. (doesn't make any sense, why not just have the option under server hosting??? well...)
second it does not seem to work currently... :D
I had a server up yesterday, we played with 3 ppl, 1 guy joined.. on map change we decided to leave , I quickly checked the server tab, nothing in it.
I now tried again and just quit the server after setting it up, no server management tab available and it's also not in the server list, so I guess it's not persistent....
(this thread is also a duplicate of https://answers.ea.com/t5/Battlefield-Portal/How-to-activate-persistant-servers/m-p/11989923#M1505)
