We have had a lot of issues with the website keep going down recently, the node we are currently on is 8 years old! So I have planned with my web-hosting to move the PirateCraft website to a more powerful node on my birthday, Monday the 19th October at 6am GMT we should hopefully be moved to a new node, the host reports that this will take 10 hours to complete, which is a large amount of downtime.

You will still be able to use the server with no issues, as for communication you will still be able to use teamspeak to communicate ts.piratemc.com via text or voice chat, this might also be a good time to look into IRC, we have an IRC channel #piratecraft on EsperNet network, Connect via irc://irc.esper.net:6667 and /join #piratecraft, We have all IRC information here: http://piratemc.com/chat/

Make sure to bookmark this url: https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.esper.net/?nick=PirateMC|?#piratecraft

Or setup a client if you wish.

We also have an official Skype Group: http://piratemc.com/topic/piratecraft-skype-group/