This is what bluehost has said about the whole thing with their final reply as contact concrete5 <sigh> because the fastcgi that they told me to enable in the first place disabled all the pages except the home page.

Basically the little views graph on the dashboard said I had over 45,000 hits yesterday and 50,000 on Monday. Google analytics doesn't report such numbers. But tech support at Bluehost said I had a lot of traffic. They suggested enabling the fastcgi, which I did, but it caused its own issues. Here is their final comment, any ideas? (it's been a long long time since I worked with sql connection strings, so detail is important):

Leave your account on the php5 setting instead of fastcgi. instead, try configuring your mysql connection string for pconnect. since your only using one mysql connection, it should reduce the load and hopefully increase the stability of your site. please contact the concrete5 support for information on how to make that change.

it says it cannot connect to the DB make sure all details are correct

lol how? I wonder if it would be better to uninstall concrete5 and start over. I have an older backup. I could take a new backup but I'm afraid it would copy whatever is wrong.