I know about the limits of DataStores, but I was wondering what happens if it fails, does this failed request count as a request? In other words, would it be safe to keep requesting :UpdateAsync until it is successful or could this potentially throttle the limit?
You should retry, I recommend having a 3 second delay or so though, but no, it shouldn’t count.
(There should be more info about that in the DataStore Limits page)
Also the limit is big enough that I believe this wouldn’t be an issue for you anyway, even if that was the case.
You shouldn’t keep retrying forever, I think 5 - 7 tries is a bunch and should be fine.
I honestly retry at maximum 10 (or 20?) times, but I don’t recommend that, do as I say, not as I do