Maintenance

Maintenance is a period of time where the entire ROBLOX website and service is shut down for updates or general maintenance. During maintenance, any attempts to go to a ROBLOX page will be redirected to a generic maintenance page. Prior to the start of maintenance, yellow banners will be displayed on the website. They may alert players that access to servers is temporarily unavailable. Once maintenance starts, players will be unable to connect to servers. However, players in games (on servers) will be automatically kicked off servers. In-game, a red banner will say "You have been disconnected from the game.". This would occur to all players that are in-game, as everyone using ROBLOX would be disconnected.

Maintenance usually occurs when most people are asleep, or at school in different time zones. However, in emergencies maintenance may start at any time.

When opening a ROBLOX maintenance bookmark while ROBLOX is not in maintenance will bring you to the home page.

Online and in-game maintenance bugs

 * When maintenance starts, all servers will stop receiving data from ROBLOX assets. Any character that had respawned once after start of maintenance becomes either a 2006 noob character or just gray. Some servers will still keep running but it might be experiencing a massive lag. Within the next 5 minutes or so, some servers will be shut down based on the command given by the maintenance team.
 * Sometimes during maintenance, players can still teleport to other games/places without getting a connection error [?].
 * Servers can sometimes be created if there's no players in the game or all of the servers in the game is full. However, they can still shut down after few minutes.
 * If you're trying to save/publish changes to a game in Roblox Studio during maintenance, a message will pop-up saying "You need to log into ROBLOX in order to save". However, pressing the OK button will automatically exit you off the place and discard any and all work [?].

Maintenance banners
Typically, a red banner proclaiming that "The site will be coming down shortly for maintenance" will be displayed on ROBLOX website as a warning to players that the website will be shutting down shortly.When a user uses the ROBLOX site while it is undergoing maintenance, an orange banner will be displayed on top of any page the user visits. Players may experience connection issues when joining or playing a game.

During maintenance phases where purchasing Builders Club or Robux are disabled, an additional banner may be present alerting users of their inability to make any real-life purchases on ROBLOX.

In-game maintenance GUI
The in-game maintenance GUI is a GUI published on places made by users who attempt to steal ROBUX from ROBLOX admins. This will tell players to enter login information to play the game. Mostly new inexperienced users tries to get through by putting their login information. When full information is entered, it sends the logs that can be used by the publisher. As the publisher gets in, they take something from, such as currency, inventory, emails, etc. or also closing account or trying to get the account banned. The publisher may be likely to be banned or terminated, and the stolen account's lost items may be retrieved by contacting appeals@roblox.com or info@roblox.com with evidence.

On this GUI, there is a message that tells the ROBLOX is under maintenance, this claims to be false, as there is no available code like scripts to put ROBLOX into undergoing maintenance, and real maintenance messages will NEVER ask for ANY log-in info. These are known as MGX Guis.

Variations to the maintenance page
Throughout ROBLOX's history, multiple maintenance pages have been used.