Scheduled maintenance
Lab maintenance windows
Regular times when BroLabz may restart idle game servers, run backups, or apply updates.
DayZ and Palworld still restart every 4 hours even with players (loot/memory health). The daily 4:00 AM pass restarts any other game that is online (with a Discord countdown).
Questions: [email protected].
Games · primary
Daily 4:00 AM · online fleet restart
~4:00 AM Eastern
Details
At 4:00 AM Eastern, any game that is online (always-on or on-demand) gets a Discord countdown, then a clean restart (saves kept). DayZ and Palworld use the separate 4-hour clock instead (they still roll at the 4:00 AM slot on that clock).
- Only servers with 0 players
- Discord notice on the game channel and server-status
- In-game notice when the title supports it
- Staggered restarts across the fleet
Games · health
4-hour restart · DayZ & Palworld
12:00 AM · 4:00 AM · 8:00 AM · 12:00 PM · 4:00 PM · 8:00 PM Eastern
Details
While DayZ or Palworld
is online, the lab restarts it on this clock — even with players on.
Keeps DayZ loot/economy and Palworld memory healthy. Discord countdown · saves kept · log out cleanly.
DayZ and Palworld customs (member checkouts on the member site) use the
same 4h Eastern clock — not optional · save kept.
Shown on your DayZ custom control panel when you check one out.
Other custom titles (CS2, Minecraft, …) do not follow this restart cycle unless listed here later.
Games · safety net
RAM health checks
Every 30 minutes
Details
Background check. A graceful restart may run if memory use is critically high, with a Discord warning. Applies fleet-wide (including titles without a 4-hour cycle).
Games · updates
Game / Steam updates
Hourly check · :20 past
Details
When an update is waiting, that title may restart after a short Discord warning. Not every hour—only when needed.
Lab · backups
Mail snapshot
2:15 AM Eastern
Details
Backup of mail data. Does not affect game join.
Lab · backups
Guest backups
~2:30 AM Eastern
Details
Nightly virtual machine backups. Games usually stay online; brief storage load is possible.
Lab · DR
DR backup copy
4:00 AM Eastern
Details
Disaster-recovery copy. Overlaps the game hygiene window; active players are still protected from empty-only restarts.
Playing overnight or mid-day.
Most titles skip the nightly empty-server pass while players are connected.
DayZ and
Palworld
still restart every 4 hours on the schedule above — watch Discord and log out cleanly.
Unplanned maintenance can occur; updates are posted in Discord when practical.
Support:
[email protected].
Typical day (Eastern)
12:00 AM
DayZ + Palworld rolling health restart
4:00 AM
DR backup · whole online fleet restart (except DayZ/Pal on 4h clock) · DayZ/Palworld rolling slot
8:00 AM · 12:00 PM · 4:00 PM · 8:00 PM
DayZ + Palworld rolling health restart
All day · every 30 min
RAM health checks
Sunday ~5:30 AM
Fleet content/Steam workshop & shared caches
Sunday ~6:15 AM
Weekly offline game binaries + gold disk refresh
Hourly · :17 / :25
Game version check · auto-apply when stale (warn if players)
Times are America/New_York and follow daylight saving. Maintenance windows can shift slightly.
