Why Did Roblox Shut Down Today 2021

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The site is support over again after a weekend-long outage, but what actually happened?

If you lot were having trouble logging into Roblox this weekend, you lot weren't alone.

The gaming platform is finally back online later on a huge outage which lasted all weekend.

Millions of players were unable to log on between Thursday 28 Oct to Lord's day 31 October.

Roblox's co-founder and CEO David Baszucki has now confirmed that Roblox is working once again, saying: "Roblox is back online. Thanks again for your understanding and support."

Simply what happened?

What happened?

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Roblox announced tardily Sun night that the site was back up and running

Information technology started on Thursday 28 Oct when users reported they were having issues connecting to the game, and eventually it became articulate that most players couldn't admission it at all.

On Fri 29 October, the official Roblox twitter account posted the following message: "We know you're having issues using Roblox right at present. We're sorry and working hard to become things back to normal."

Over the class of the weekend, the game'south Twitter account posted regular updates. On Saturday they announced that they'd institute the cause of the issue, and it was fixed late Sunday night.

In a tweet, the company said: "Roblox is back online everywhere! Thank you for your continued patience equally we get dorsum to normal."

So why did the site go down?

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You lot should be able to play the game as normal from today

In a post online Roblox CEO David Baszucki said that this detail outage was "especially difficult" and "involved a combination of several factors."

A spokesperson from Roblox told usa that information technology all boiled down to the fact that more than servers were connected at their data centre.

Servers are the computers or computer programs that allow websites to run, so if there'due south an consequence with them, there will be an upshot with the site they're supporting.

When they added more of these computers, "it caused an overload to the organization, which caused the platforms to go down," the spokesperson explained. "There wasn't an increase in usage. It was a change behind the scenes."

David Baszucki too said that: "due to the difficulty in diagnosing the actual bug, recovery took longer than whatsoever of usa would have liked," and apologised to the customs for how long it took everything to get back online.

He said that Roblox will share the actions they will be taking to avoid the aforementioned bug happening once again in the future, and will be "transparent" well-nigh their findings.

The statement likewise contained reassurances that player'due south progress data shouldn't accept been affected, and anybody should exist able to pick up from where they left off.