Okay - So, one of the things I've been doing is occasionally building WordPress sites. And I've kind of gotten descent at it. But I have this one site I maintain that is... let's call it a 'trouble child'.

It is slower than molasses in the Montana Winter, to the point that I can no longer update it without the server timing me out. I have been fighting this for a long time now. I *think* I've even talked about it here. I have talked to my hosting provider, but they keep saying the same thing: According to them, the site is being pounded. Their solution? - modify the .htaccess and add a robots.txt file, to tell spiders to go away and remove all hot-linking to the site. Which I have done. But it's not working. At all. And hearing this for the fourth go around when it's not working is, well, beyond frustrating.

I am literately at my whits end here and am asking for help because, this is frankly beyond my skill set. I may be a good artist, and a decent, basic programmer, but I am really far from being a server admin with suspenders.

So, what do I need? A new direction on which to talk this issue.

What I don't need - telling me, or offering, to rebuild the site from the ground up using [insert personal baby program/service/webcode/DB here]. The site is build with WordPress with Php5.x/MySQL. That will not change.

If you have any ideas or want to help out with this programming puzzle, please, please, please post a comment below or shoot me a note.

Thank you!