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Quote Originally Posted by Vicious Horizon View Post
Ahem, we restart the server every 2 hours for a number of reasons.

Reason 1: It reboots the mobs and dropped items, meaning less lag on the server
Reason 2: Back in the day before we implemented this, the server was a little unstable, and had a habit of crashing in the early hours of the morning, meaning from 3am to 2pm the server was down, this restart means that if the server goes down, there's a maximum of 2 hours, rather than 11 hours.

Those are the two main reasons, and tbh it's an efficient fix for most of the server problems.