>There is absolutely no justification for him to be running into these sort of issues at such an incredibly low load Yet he is running into these issues. Is it

>There is absolutely no justification for him to be running into these sort of issues at such an incredibly low load Yet he is running into these issues. Is it a buggy plugin or a configuration issue?probably, yes. But that's exactly the problem static sites solve. I don't mean to say he's out grown it as in you can't serve Wordpress at the volume he's currently getting. I mean you have to have everything setup correctly to do so.One option would be to learn the workings of Wordpress and maybe the web server hosting this. If that's what he wants to do with his time great. I suspect he may have other interests, if that's the case static hosting would be a good alternative. It might not be the best, but it's the best I know.