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Is Royal Road Down?

No — Royal Road is up

Reachable from all 8 checked regions

Average response time: 365ms

Last checked · checks run every 6 hours

Official status page: https://status.royalroad.com

Royal Road uptime

100%
Last 7 days
100%
Last 30 days
99.65%
Last 90 days
576ms
Avg response, 30 days

Measured from multiple regions every 6 hours. Percentages count only checks that returned an availability answer — 72 days measured so far. A dash means that window does not yet hold enough measured days to publish a figure.

30-day history

63-day clean streak
Sep 14: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Sep 15: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Sep 16: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Sep 17: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Sep 18: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Sep 19: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Sep 20: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Sep 21: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Sep 22: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Sep 23: 100.00% uptime, 44 checks
Sep 24: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Sep 25: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Sep 26: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Sep 27: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Sep 28: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Sep 29: 100.00% uptime, 44 checks
Sep 30: 100.00% uptime, 29 checks
Oct 1: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 2: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 3: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 4: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 5: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 6: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 7: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 8: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 9: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 10: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 11: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 12: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Oct 13: 100.00% uptime, 32 checks
Sep 14 Today
No downtime Partial Downtime Not measurable No data

Reachability by region

Each region runs its own request from a different part of the world. A service can be up for one continent and down for another, which is usually the first sign of a routing or CDN problem.

ams
131ms
DNS 0ms TCP 2ms TLS 7ms TTFB 118ms
arn
150ms
DNS 0ms TCP 1ms TLS 7ms TTFB 146ms
cdg
158ms
DNS 0ms TCP 2ms TLS 9ms TTFB 138ms
dfw
498ms
DNS 0ms TCP 1ms TLS 7ms TTFB 367ms
ewr
489ms
DNS 0ms TCP 2ms TLS 11ms TTFB 389ms
fra
94ms
DNS 1ms TCP 1ms TLS 7ms TTFB 84ms
gru
910ms
DNS 0ms TCP 2ms TLS 10ms TTFB 699ms
iad
496ms
DNS 0ms TCP 14ms TLS 21ms TTFB 368ms

What Royal Road does

Royal Road is a web fiction platform where authors serialise novels chapter by chapter, mostly progression fantasy and LitRPG, and readers follow along through reading lists and notifications. Authors post on schedules their readers track closely, so an outage during a release window is noticed by a great many people at once.

What an outage looks like

Chapter pages return a Cloudflare error page rather than a Royal Road one, or the site loads while individual chapters fail to open. Posting a new chapter fails at the submit step. Reading lists and follow notifications stop updating. The mobile app fails to sign in or shows an empty library while the website works, since the app uses a separate API and auth server.

What to do about it

Check status.royalroad.com, which reports Website via Cloudflare and Website direct as separate components, alongside the mobile API, the auth server, the database and the load balancers, each with a response time and an uptime figure. That split is the useful part: if the direct check is up and the Cloudflare one is down, the problem sits in front of Royal Road. Draft chapters elsewhere before pasting them in.

Is it down for everyone, or just you?

If this page says Royal Road is up but it is not loading for you, the problem is between you and them. Run a check against any URL from up to 17 cities across three regions to find out where it breaks.

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Royal Road outage FAQ

Is Royal Road down, or is it a Cloudflare problem?
Royal Road's status page answers this directly, which few sites do. It measures the website through Cloudflare and the website directly as two separate components and says so on the page. If the direct component is operational and the Cloudflare one is not, the failure is in the layer in front of Royal Road, and nothing the site's own team does will clear it faster.
Will a chapter I was writing be lost?
Anything only in the browser editor is at risk, because a submit that fails during an outage can take the draft with it when the page reloads. Write or paste long chapters from a local document rather than composing in the browser during an incident. If a submit is hanging, copy the text out before touching refresh, which is the point where drafts usually disappear.
Why does the mobile app work when the website does not?
They run on different components. Royal Road tracks the mobile API and the auth server separately from the website, so the app can keep serving chapters while the site fails, or fail to sign you in while the site is fine. Trying both is worthwhile before concluding Royal Road is down, and which one works tells you roughly where the problem is.
Do I lose my reading progress during an outage?
Progress already recorded on your account stays. What may not survive is progress from the outage itself, since marking a chapter read is a write to the database and writes fail before reads do during most incidents. You may find a chapter you finished mid-outage is still marked unread afterwards, which is a display of what was saved rather than a bug.

How we measure this

  • We request Royal Road's public endpoint every 6 hours from Fly.io regions across six continents — the most recent check ran from 8 of them.
  • A region counts as down only when it gets no usable HTTP response. A 403 or 429 means the origin answered and refused us, which we report as blocked, never as an outage.
  • A single failing region is treated as probe noise. We only change the verdict when two consecutive cycles agree.
  • Response times average only the regions that actually served the page, so a timeout never inflates the number.
  • Where Royal Road publishes an official status feed we read it too. An all-clear from the vendor can soften an unconfirmed degradation; a vendor-declared outage only worsens our verdict when our own checks corroborate it.

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