Most sites going down are, on average, not due to the fault of the site owner but a bug in whatever distribution platform their site uses.
It was a joke referencing the mnemonics.
I do understand how most websites are hosted.
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I apologise in that case, but tone is very easy to misconstrued 
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Not sure what you mean by “distribution platform” in this case.
I suspect that some misconfiguration was deployed (could be Apache, nginx, kubernetes, ALB, …), but that’s just a guess. In any case, mistakes like that happen.
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When WaniKani is down I realize how important it is to me 
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The distribution platform for this form, for example, is Discourse. They are, in turn, hosted on undisclosed distributed hosts in the US and the EU. Unless Wanikani pushed a config change out, which midday in the week (in their time) seems unlikely - you don’t push changes out in business hours typically and if you do you are watching for a quick roll-back - then the fault is likely either with a host or a load balancing/ddos prevention provider, etc.
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Hey, it’s back up again!
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I just loaded up WaniKani a second ago and it’s letting me review now?
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same here, but I only have a like 20 that I can do for the rest of the day so…oh well
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Eh, I don’t know WK’s tech stack, but I suspect that it’s a custom deployment of discourse (which is open source technology). I would be surprised if WK didn’t host most of its tech stack itself.
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Yep it should be back now.
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Hey all! Could you try the site again? It should be working now!
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It’s not, it’s a hosted Discourse forum ^-^
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It’s working for me!
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Thank you guys! 
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It was probably just experiencing an overload of people trying to access the site or something like that
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It’s working, thanks for looking into it!
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