Currently Unable to Handle this Request, Constant Timeouts and crashes

the site seems to be on a server in your house (based on the IP address), so whatever is going on has nothing to do with Cloudflare or GoDaddy.

Your site is showing a 500 error. What are you seeing in the web server logs?

Where would I even find these?

If you’re hosting a site, you’re the system admin. You should know where system logs, server logs, etc are kept. How did you configure your synology box to host a datbase-driven website? I suggest you review that documentation.

500 indicates a PHP error or a basic configuration error. It’s meaning is “Something Bad Happened. Good luck.” ??

So you need the logs to track it down.

Hmm I have no idea where they are kept. Are they in phpmyadmin somewhere? [redacted]

Never offer anyone access to your site or phpmyadmin. You don’t know who we are. Nor am I willing to be liable for anything that might happen to your site.

How does synology host websites? Apache? Nginx? Soemthing else?

If you want to hire a developer, please post something on https://jobs.wordpress.net or (better yet) go to a local WordPress meetup and get face to face with some local WP folks who can help you.

I have no idea… How can I find out for you?

Oh I think it’s nginx and uses MariaDB

OK, here’s a link about error logs
https://www.nginx.com/resources/admin-guide/logging-and-monitoring/

Look for something about a 500 error — see if you can get a file reference.

Why are you hosting this site from home? Why not use a hosting company?

Because it saves me the money each month and I have a NAS box among other tech that should be able to easily accomodate for one. It’s just a small website that I use as a portfolio.

Ok, just to pick your brains a bit more… I am able to get the site ‘semi-working’ and have occasional crashes by copying and pasting an old backup over all of the existing wordpress config. Surely that can’t be good for the back-end, but it at least has the site up…

What does semi-working mean?

If you access the site, it usually works. Try navigating it and you’ll probably have it crash. If I update plugins, most likely the images disappear (narrowed it down to one or two). The site in general has about 90% chance it works. Still nowhere near perfect.

I suspect that your server gets overloaded and crashes. Given the non-standard nature of your platform, you might do better asking on the synology support site.

I have, they have been of little help. It’s a bit of a weird one because the plugins I use aren’t that resource intensive – unless there are really common ones like Jetpack (I don’t use) that do it? I would have thought if it was overloaded, then disabling all the plugins and themes would have fixed it? I have reduced the number of apps running on the NAS to near minimal too!