In the last 24 hours the site has been up and down constantly. I have checked the logs — there has been no great increase in traffic (instead, unsuprisingly) it is decreased.
So no DNS attack.
I have moved back to twenty-eleven as the theme @ present.
I have also disabled Jetpack. That has sped things up considerably. The plugins left are disqus (for comments) antispam bee, and bad behaviour.
Here’s hoping that the site now functions.