Sony’s PlayStation Network went down for hours on Tuesday, frustrating gamers around the world who complained they weren’t able to sign in to their accounts. Data from Downdetector, an outage tracker, showed that reports first spiked late Monday and continued into early Tuesday with thousands of reports submitted hours after the problem first emerged. The outage was resolved by morning in the U.S. and the Playstation Network website was updated with a message that said, “All services are up and running.” Why is the internet outages so frequent?

