Sometimes I come to the home page and it's slow to load. Sometimes it fails altogether with a "page not found".
I have the same problem with this website (http://www.stltoday.com/). Their forums also load slow but sometimes they load right away.
I believe this site uses FreeBSD as does the linked one above. So I'm assuming it could be a setting on IE on my computer. Any guesses?
I think its just variable server load Doc, I am using ADSL from Australia and it is usually reasonably fast but on odd occasions it is a bit slow. The server is in Santa Clara in California and they seem to have massive bandwidth in most instances but a matching large customer base that occasionally can overload it.
I get the 'page not found' sometimes too. I use Firefox, so it's a server problem i guess.