It's entirely possible that every time the server crashes it has begun to auto-reset or at least attempt to back up our information before shutting down to prevent rollbacks. In which case, this has been the most awesome update ever.
Quick reminder, the announcements section has a thread for comments about the server status. It is stickied. This sort of conversation would be better there.
<Marcher Lord> Dogs! Oh god, please give us DOGS! There are those who press on with the ardor of beer, and those who are faint with thirst.
Server crashes do, and probably always will, often require some level of manual intervention to ensure, among other things, that shutdown happens correctly and that map regions that were being loaded during the crash aren't nuked.
"Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing." -- Rob Pike