Server Restarts

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Is it just me, or does the server ping for a long time after a restart? It's been several minutes after a restart and it pings for me at the multiplayer screen. The restart is over, but I can't join for some reason. I've tried restarting Minecraft, refreshing the servers list, playing in singleplayer, and I've tried joining. It'll say "connection refused". Can someone please help?