Why so may "Time outs"

[Graham]

What is causing this?
When I try to log in, it often taks perhaps up to an hour.
UK time is between 3am and say 5 am

Graham

 

[Jon Wildsmith]

Don't know Graham, try a traceroute to see where the delay is as it could be anywhere between you and the server or the server itself.

 

[TonyP]

I've not had any timeouts from either home or work.... Even from my mobile over 3G it's fine

 

[Gary Stockton]

If you're in China at the moment it could be latency anywhere in all the hops being taken - especially with Facebook and twitter traffic hammering the Chinese networks at the moment due to Steve Jobs' demise ...

 

[Graham]

FB & Tw are both blocked here, and have been for a long time.

Jon, how do I do a trace route.
I was beginning to think it might be a particular time in UK, when the server is backing itself up maybe?

Back to FB and Tw, how do I stop websites trying to load in FB and Tw, when I know it's just wasting time, as they are never going to load.
Is there a way to prevent the task of laoding the FB and Tw adverts from the outset?

Graham

 

[Jon Wildsmith]

Jon, how do I do a trace route.

In windows open a command prompt and type in (without the quotes ) "tracert www.landcruiserclub.net" and it should work through all the hops between you and the server printing a line of data per hop that shows the length of time taken for a responce. Not all hops respond, some servers ignore the requests but see if it makes it as far as printing a name on the fasthosts.net.uk network which is where the server lives.

I was beginning to think it might be a particular time in UK, when the server is backing itself up maybe?

The server does do a backup in the middle of the night across that time period and is busy doing a full rather than incremental job on the 1st of the month and Sunday mornings but at worst that might make the server a bit sluggish not fail to respond at all.