In the spirit of transparency, I'll describe a little bit of what we're working on here:
Prior to the maintenance occurring right now, we had two dedicated machines which a high-speed communications channel maintained between them. We have something like 60 or 70 different servers running to power TLOPO, it's a lot.
To make this system as efficient as possible, we divided the game's server into smaller servers which handle specific tasks. This allows us to create a server that is exclusively responsible for managing all lobbies, or perhaps a different server responsible only for managing all guilds.
In our new set up, we are renting a newer and much more powerful high-end CPU. We are taking advantage of as many features this CPU has, and are redesigning how the servers will work to provide our players a better game experience.
The new servers in tandem with the Pypperoni game update (coming hopefully by the end of this year) is going to be an extraordinary update for the game.