This likely has nothing to do with the server hardware and everything to do with the drunken coding Funkhram has been doing. I don’t think GPortal coincidentally replaced all their hardware with trash the day Funkhram release AoW Ch2. Ch2 introduced some of the worst code to come out of Funkhram and immediately killed server performance. Rather than investigate and fix that Funkhram not only let it fester but introduced more abominable code in Ch3. The fact that some servers cannot even remain online consistently anymore is the inevitable result of careless coding and poor design decisions.