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Restart schedules that help, and ones that just interrupt
A nightly restart is a workaround, not maintenance. When it genuinely helps, how to schedule it so nobody loses anything, and what it hides.
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Scheduled restarts are close to universal in game hosting and are usually treated as hygiene. They are really a workaround: something is degrading over hours, and restarting resets it. That is a legitimate thing to do, as long as you know it is what you are doing.
When it genuinely helps
- A known leak in a mod nobody is going to fix.
- Fragmentation over long uptimes that shows as a slowly rising floor.
- Applying an update, which is a restart with a reason.
How to schedule one
Pick the hour with the fewest players, warn in advance from within the game, and save before stopping. A restart that arrives without warning during a boss fight costs you more goodwill than the memory it reclaimed.
If a nightly restart is load-bearing, write down what it is hiding. That note is the actual bug report.