This may be a stupid question but...

[killette2]

Sometimes the server shuts down and sometimes it crashes

Does shutdown always mean an update or are there no ingame updates (besides bugfixes) until world 6?

[preacherzero]

as far as I know the server is hosted on a laptop in one of the devs homes or something like that.
As such it is reasonable to expect somewhat choppy performance from time to time.

Also as far as I know updates are unlikely given that the boys are hard at work on their new game with Paradox which I have no doubt will be awesome, so I suppose we should be grateful that they even keep HnH up and running considering any and all funding they scrape together for server costs is entirely derived from donations.

[ElGato]

as far as I know the server is hosted on a laptop in one of the devs homes or something like that.
As such it is reasonable to expect somewhat choppy performance from time to time.

Also as far as I know updates are unlikely given that the boys are hard at work on their new game with Paradox which I have no doubt will be awesome, so I suppose we should be grateful that they even keep HnH up and running considering any and all funding they scrape together for server costs is entirely derived from donations.

wat
it's on a dedicated server now