Blizzard has put out an announcement informing that the Area 52 Server will receive a realm restart Wednesday, September 25th, at 7AM PDT.
This reset is largely to help stabilize some of the performance issues that the server was suffering from recently. Hopefully with the reset, most problems should be resolved and the server can operate at full strength again.
As Area 52 players know, we had an issue that caused degraded performance on this realm starting at 2:08 p.m. PDT today. We were able to stabilize the realm for the most part, and players have been on the realm as usual all evening, but we need to restart the realm to pick up a fix for the issue.