Increase in traffic?
Slow ISP at their end?
Database needs re-indexing?
One or more servers getting hardware storage errors?
A windows system needs defragging?
One or more faulty memory modules in one or more servers?
A raid controller board throwing errors?
A simpler answer might be lack of advertisements.
Advertisements = High Speed Gear
Money needed for FReepathon?
The other day I got an error msg. saying the Proxy Server was down.
I thought, “Cool, FR is using proxy servers? Send Janet Napolitano’s flying monkeys off to explore server farms in Tonga. Capital idea!”