The folks at Pirates of the Burning Sea have announced that they will begin a schedule of regular semiweekly downtime to deal with issues which show up after a long period of time.
In order to mitigate a couple issues with our servers that have been manifesting over long periods of up-time, we will begin restarting all of our clusters twice weekly.
Our North American and European servers will now see regular maintenance periods beginning at 1:30a every Tuesday and Friday, Pacific Time (8:30a, GMT).
We will be making an announcement for our Australian customers on the Invincible server shortly.
The restarts may be moved a bit to accommodate Port Battles in progress – we will keep you informed via the Announcements Forum and in game if there are changes. Each restart is expected to last less than 20 minutes.
We anticipate this being a temporary measure, and we apologize for the inconvenience. We thank you for your patience and understanding as we work to remedy this issue.
Read more here.