Can a public hive restart?

[irl-calibre 744]

So.. I log into my local server to be greeted with the select gender screen. i've a character alive on this server going on two weeks so i'm a bit wtf? log out and back in again to be greeted by the same screen. I think oh well, que sera sera. Choose my character and spawn in komorovo in the pitch dark. I remember a sneaky wee camp down in kemenka i'd found ages ago, though I haven't been down south on this server in over a week & run to check out if the three tents are still there, for a quick re-up on the essential shit like NVG's. Get to where the camp should of been and nothing is there. it's a long haul to get back to where my UAZ was parked where I logged out yesterday & i'm wondering is it worth going to all the trouble to make my way back there in the pitch dark only to find nothing there. Could the server have started over again? even though its a public hive?

[D3nty 114]

Same thing happened to me this morning, i thought i would run around on my hive char and it was gone.