At DICE's request, all GSPs will switch off all public and privately rented Battlefield: Bad Company 2 servers after eight hours of inactivity, in an effort to reduce load on EA's crash-happy master server:

    Due to the continued issues with the EA master servers, DICE have requested we turn off servers which aren't actively being used by players.

    As we want you guys to enjoy this excellent game with as little problems as possible, we are going to be turning off all servers which have had 0 players for over 8 hours.

    Please note that this is a temporary measure, which we hope everyone will support; however we also appreciate that some of your may not want your servers turned off.

    Just to confirm this will only effect servers if they haven't seen a single player for over 8 hours so there is no need to worry that your server will be turned off when its full.

This follows the shut down of public servers, accounting for around 40,000 player slots.

Quote from: Friar Cack on March 12, 2010, 12:34:28 AM

What is the process of getting it turned back on? If it does get shut off.

You have to actually cancel your subscription with the server hosting company, and buy a new one.  I know, fucked, right?