So the owner of these servers was pulled into the armed forces a few years ago, the reason as to why the servers went down back then. He is recently back, however, and is restarting his hosting solutions for game servers.
To answer the post discussing the oc-12 connection, the servers are hosted in a very large datacenter in the usa, the same place a lot of ISPs tap in their connections as well.
Prices for servers are very reasonable, at around 30-40 per server, unless you'd like a clan package, which will run you more, but also supply a website, forum, voice program, and email server.
Just an update, there will be more to come in the future, and of course at
elitegamingservers.net, which isn't up just yet.