Can't they just turn on Cloudflare or take any of the other logical actions when a site is visibly under attack? They need to hire an even barely capable developer.
They have the ability to resolve the issues. But they aren't doing it for some reasons. Occasionally, I think that wetsuit has handed over the site to TheQuin, and TheQuin is unable to run the site properly as he doesn't know the coding language of Freebitco properly. Anyway, I don't think that all these things are happening for some kind of attack on the website.