My Main Site Was Attacked

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I've been in a fog fighting technical issues for the past three days. At 1:30 Friday morning I was trying to save a post on my most profitable blogging site. Instead I got a message saying that my site was inaccessible due to CPU time overage and too many account executions. What a shock to get just as I was about to go to bed. I couldn't wait until morning to tackle this problem. After getting almost no help from the tech support person at my web host except that he thought upgrading to a more expensive plan would fix it, I was in despair. He had led me to believe the site would probably be back up in about an hour, but it wasn't. Instead I got an email that indicated it wouldn't be back up for another day. This was unacceptable. I called tech support again hoping I'd get someone else and I did. He helped me get the site back up and change some settings to facilitate less use of resources. It was thought that someone had been trying to hack my site or that rogue bots had been crawling it using too many resources. Now I'm almost afraid to work on the site myself for fear of using resources. I optimized some plugins for tighter security and I hope I'm good now. Because of these problems I only got about 4 hours sleep on Thursday night (or should I say Friday morning?) Technical emergencies always seem to come at a very inconvenient time and true emergencies have to be dealt with quickly. The biggest problem I have is that I know so little about what goes on in the background. I just want to type, upload photos, proofread, optimize for SEO and post. What happens on my server is a big mystery to me, and so is fixing problems on the server. I finally decided today to upgrade my Yoast SEO plugin to fix some problems I don't know how to fix and that would take me a lot of time. One of those is making all kinds of redirects to dead links that people still search for that are from an older version of the site. I also need to talk to Yoast tech support about a Google problem. I somehow managed to verify a page on a fairly new site with the code from a different page and I have no idea of how to fix that. I need my brain rewired. Now you have some idea of why I've been less active this past two days. I have a lot of technical fires to put out and I'm also still up to my ears in the book removal project. Are you currently trying to solve a challenging problem?