It happens to a lot of servers, happened to mine quite a bit but I noticed it also has to do with what map you're on. I'm on Ragnarok and my server hasn't wiped yet, knock on wood.
Yep...has happened on a couple I play on...it's gothen a lot more stable since the last roll put with the rag map. But can still potentially happen. I play on a server that has an admin team that currently hosts 5 servers. 4 rag maps and 1 island. Luckily mine has been pretty awesome but 2 of those maps have gone down. In recent days and caused a server wipe on one of them.
How is it a lie tho? Lol. When my server crashed and i lost my tames and stuff the 2nd day of rag being released and im an admin myself. Its an ark problem tho.