Servers

Just curious, i have done a good bit of modding for Ark and decided its time to try to make something. I am working on a multiplayer game and am curious. There seems to be a wierd set of steps to make a dedicated server. Maybe i dont know what i think i knew but when you build and run the regular exe you can -server and it will run as a dedicated server without those steps? is there a difference between getting the source and compiling a dedi server through it or using the game exe - server?