DICE is still having problems with the servers and serverload — if you’ve played BC2, you’d know that by now. DICE was recently rumored to have asked server providers to shut down idle servers because they stressed the network and EA master server too much. DICE has now clarified that they only asked Multiplay.co.uk, one of the largest game server providers in the world. DICE said,

We did not make this decision lightly but as an attempt to temporarily lower traffic on EA servers that is caused by the game server browser while we work on a client fix for the browser here at DICE. After previously shutting down all EA Public servers which accounted for approximately 40,000 player slots we have actually gained approximately 50,000 more player slots from new rental servers. We currently have enough server capacity to allow over 150,000 players to get in a game server at once and that is just on PC.

You can read DICE full statement and explanation here.