First, I am sure you will get accused of blog pimping. Secondly, who is hosting your site?
See if your ISP offers a Ddos (distributed denial of service) protection option. Among the most popular is Cloudflare, which you can also get.
You need to work with your hosting service to filter queries and block IP addresses that hammer your site.
If you’re running your own servers, try Cloudflare:
https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/#overview
If you’re hosted by a hosting company, you’ll need to deal with them or move if they aren’t equipped to deal with the situation.
Yep, you are being hit with a DDoS attack. This is when your server host should help you with this situation. contact your host and find out what options you have.
Your ISP should be able to fend-off the attacks.
Otherwise, wait until there are a hundred thousand bots on it, hit the red button on your keyboard, and blow it up, to vaporize it and the bots.
Hopefully, you have a copy of the site and can reinstall it. Heh.
You need a hosting service that provides an SLA based on up time and stipulates penalties for not achieving those goals. Shoot for 3-nines and it won’t cost an arm and a leg.
From this we must assume that your lifes work is a blog and that you are a teenager.
This is very sad. You may want to look into getting a real job.
Your site’s loaded for me; took a little while, but it’s up-and-running, and stable.
DON’T use that red button...
Who is it who keeps attacking conservatives. We are at war.
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Took a few minutes but finally loaded. I see it’s a WordPress site. Get the WordFence security plugin; https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/
https://smartwayhosting.com/ (Looks totally hokey to me. Like a late night infomercial or get rich quick advertisement. I use a2hosting and as far as I know, they’re apolitical and just run a business. Very fast server and they’re proactive in keeping things secure.
*** To diagnose plugin issues, first deactivate all your plugins. If the site works fast then, reactivate on at a time. It would actually be two plugins clashing or one recently updated plugin that was poorly coded. I’ve learned how to avoid crappy or bloated plugins.
Yoast and bbPress are pretty bloated and I see no link to a forum on your site so I don’t know why you have bbPress installed. Rankmath is a very good, non bloated SEO plugin to replace that cartoonified Yoast.
Page builders like Beaver Builder can slow down a website.
I see another one. wp-Smush-Pro. I’ll have to get back with you for better image optimization plugins. Can’t think of the names off the top of my head. The latest one I started using converts all images to webp format which makes for really small file sizes. MBs turn into KBs.
cloudflare
Are you sure it is a bot?
Is the site wordpress based? Does the traffic show up in wordpress stats?
I have been through something similar, and still get it every so often. For a day or two, I get so many queries it hits the database hourly limit and stops all further queries, until the hour turns over. There is a window of accessibility, and then it happens again for the next hour.
When you look into it, they tell you it is most often a new plugin, and to uninstall all plugins. But that doesn’t work for me.
They will have you install the plugin query monitor, to see what page is producing the queries, but that doesn’t work for me either.
At the end of the day, I have just accepted it will happen. Some think it may be the host backing things up somehow. Since I deal with a lot of intelligence stuff, I have wondered if an intel agency is scraping the site every month or so, pulling everything. It seems to not be malicious, as they don’t do it constantly. Just a day or so, and then it stops for a month.