We were contacted as outsiders to come in and have a look. We managed to stop site from crashing with configuring but basically the site was bombarded with too

We were contacted as outsiders to come in and have a look. We managed to stop site from crashing with configuring but basically the site was bombarded with too many dynamic requests and having no cache it took its toll. Server did not wait for responses, it just sent us bunch of requests all at once.