anyone know whats going on with the servers?

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Originally Posted by Inactive Maintenance usually means restarting the servers to flush out the memory cache and give the systems some cooling time since they are usually stacked in a room set to about 58-64 F. Heat dissipates into other servers, and over time even the cold environment doesn't help the systems from overheating. Resistance over a transistor (the funky little object that makes all computers work, FYI), will ultimately result in defects across the hardware, usually resulting in crashes.

Not for nothing, enterprise level data centers do NOT need to restart because of temperatures. Psst..buddy..redundancy is your friend..learn to use him.

If WOW has this problem, it isn't Blizzard's fault. They don't own jack that runs their game. AT&T is the bad guy if it's a hardware-related issue that affects our game.