30 to 50k uniques per month really isn't that much. At a rough guesstimate, I'd say I've got at least one hosting customer that does that much with Wordpress, gracefully, on a site that's not optimized even a little. I charge them $10/mo.
Static site generators and everything else are lovely and all, but it's hard to beat Wordpress when it comes to being able to just plug in a new feature. Which, of course, also gives some folks the rope they need to hang themselves. As other folks have pointed out, there could be a plugin issue.
But my guess is it's the hosting provider. They can have professional-sounding support but still be running an architecture that hasn't been updated very much in the last 5+ years. mpm-event and php-fpm alone really changed the performance characteristics for bog-standard LAMP hosting.
The error logs should give a number if memory's exhausted. I bet it's super low, because a lot of shared hosting providers still try to cram as many sites as they can onto a beleaguered colo'd box. At a glance, that does look like the csoft.net architecture (they have "Two Dedicated, Redundant Servers (with Private Gigabit LAN)").
There's certainly a broader point to be made about the gross, inexorable bloat of web-based applications, but there are also plenty of people running even more bloated, busy stuff for less money with less trouble.
Oh, and you can install the traditional editor for Wordpress, they've made it available as a free plugin and it works just fine.
There are plenty of people around who can sort out stuff like this. I'm one of them, but I'm heading to bed. Email's in my profile, or just accept help from anybody else that knows what they're doing.
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