Thanks for your help; I looked up backtrace on other forum posts, seems the freepbx distro doesn’t compile asterisk correctly? I followed the freepbx wiki regarding creating a backtrace (https://wiki.freepbx.org/display/SUP/Getting+a+Proper+Asterisk+Backtrace), yet I also noted other asterisk forum posts regarding backtraces and the freepbx distro (e.g. Asterisk crashes from time to time after upgrade to 13.17.0), not sure what that’s all about or what can be altered by the freepbx folks or the wiki I followed to get better backtraces.
In any case, your input pushed me to purchase a new host, and although the old host wasn’t showing over utilization, I migrated to the completely new host, so far issue hasn’t come back up (the server isn’t really being utilized, being that it’s the weekend).
So again, your input was invaluable.