Help Reducing WordPress’s CPU Draw On A Shared Server

Hi folks,

I’ve been having issues keeping my site live for the past month and a half now. My blog keeps spiking my shared hosts cpu and ends up getting my site shut off. It seems that I can’t put together 3 days of up time before I’m deactivated.

I believe my site has been hacked. Initially I just thought WP was a big old CPU hog, but since I’ve now reinstalled it for the 3rd time I think I may have other issues. So I’m posting here in the hopes that someone might have some sort of input as I’m running out of ideas what to do.

Here are a few things I’ve tried thus far to make my site lighter and at the same time more secure.

* Reinstalled WordPress 3 Times
* Updated WP File Permissions
* Removed plugins
* Banned possible offending IP’s
* Removed all large files
* Installed WP Super Cache
* Changed my admin login info
* Reduced my database calls form 52 to 8
* Altered my .htaccess file
* Installed several security plugins
* Updated My SQL prefixes

Read more about my issue here –> http://www.natebal.com and here –> http://www.lukeslytalker.wordpress.com