yeah something in the code is broken from the last company that owned the game. There was horrible delay after sometime of the servers being up, when the restarted were only 30m or less the delay still got really bad.
Now restarts take about an hour plus which can be a little annoying but it seems it is need, haven't been getting any delay since the longer downtimes started. Hopefully soon we will have FE2 with a fresh code and not have these issues.