--- title: EXTENDED DOWNTIME, THURSDAY MORNING 01/07/2016 description: Beginning at 3AM CT Thursday Morning we will be taking down Roll20 for an estimated seven hours in order to migrate our hosting servers. image: https://bloghub.roll20.net/hubfs/blog-featured-placeholder%20(32).jpg --- [![](https://bloghub.roll20.net/hubfs/Roll20%20-%20Assets/Blog/Group%202.svg)](https://roll20.net/) - [Blog](https://bloghub.roll20.net/roll20-blog) - [Marketplace](https://marketplace.roll20.net/) - [Community](https://app.roll20.net/forum/) ![](https://bloghub.roll20.net/hubfs/Roll20%20-%20Assets/Icon%20Copy.svg) [Play Now](https://app.roll20.net/) News # EXTENDED DOWNTIME, THURSDAY MORNING 01/07/2016 January 5, 2016 ![ROLL20](https://bloghub.roll20.net/hubfs/blog-featured-placeholder%20(32).jpg) SHARE: [Share this blog post on Facebook](http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=https://bloghub.roll20.net/posts/extended-downtime-thursday-morning-01072016/) [Share this blog post on Twitter](https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=https://bloghub.roll20.net/posts/extended-downtime-thursday-morning-01072016/&text=EXTENDED%20DOWNTIME,%20THURSDAY%20MORNING%2001/07/2016) [Share this blog post on Reddit](https://reddit.com/submit?url=https://bloghub.roll20.net/posts/extended-downtime-thursday-morning-01072016/) ![The Roll20 Team](https://bloghub.roll20.net/hs-fs/hubfs/roll20team-hex.png?width=150&name=roll20team-hex.png) #### The Roll20 Team [Beginning at 3AM CT Thursday Morning](https://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fitsalmo.st%2F%23roll20downtime&t=MWRmMDA3YzdjNTdlYjgxZWVhM2U2MWM5YmM5ODQwOTllYzhlYzdiNCxzeVlva0xvcw%3D%3D&b=t%3AAWOiB2yTKRq7_ROi5nEu2g&p=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.roll20.net%2Fpost%2F136701619775%2Fextended-downtime-thursday-morning-01072016&m=1&ts=1610475088) we will be taking down Roll20 for an estimated seven hours in order to migrate our hosting servers. Our current hosting service has been experiencing [stability and security issues](https://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.linode.com%2F2016%2F01%2F05%2Fsecurity-notification-and-linode-manager-password-reset%2F&t=YTIyNGU1MzkxNjMzZTUzMzMyNzY1ZDU5ZjE0MDYyOTM1YzE4Yzg4MSxzeVlva0xvcw%3D%3D&b=t%3AAWOiB2yTKRq7_ROi5nEu2g&p=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.roll20.net%2Fpost%2F136701619775%2Fextended-downtime-thursday-morning-01072016&m=1&ts=1610475088) recently, and we’ve done our best to work around these problems but it has become increasingly difficult. We began examining a move to [Google Cloud Platform](https://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fcloud.google.com%2F&t=Zjg0MmViMjlmODk1OGYxMTM1NzQ3YTk0ZWVjMTQ3NmExMmVhNGYzNSxzeVlva0xvcw%3D%3D&b=t%3AAWOiB2yTKRq7_ROi5nEu2g&p=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.roll20.net%2Fpost%2F136701619775%2Fextended-downtime-thursday-morning-01072016&m=1&ts=1610475088) hosting several months ago– in part because of the convenience in relationship to [Firebase](https://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.firebase.com%2F&t=ODdjMjgyOThjMjg5ZGM4ZjM3MjBlZTE0ZjdiYTIzMmI5ZGM2ZWM1NSxzeVlva0xvcw%3D%3D&b=t%3AAWOiB2yTKRq7_ROi5nEu2g&p=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.roll20.net%2Fpost%2F136701619775%2Fextended-downtime-thursday-morning-01072016&m=1&ts=1610475088)– and had not made a final decision until these recent issues with Roll20 downtime and degraded service. 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