No one has answered the question whether or not the web space or storage and email activities are being run off the same server as the rest of Rendorosity. If so, I would conjecture that this may be part of the problem. The intermittence of the problem makes me think that. It also opens up a whole new level of security issues. Trying to set up the security that is needed for these activities may create problems for the rest of the site. Actually, when things are slow, the store is just as slow as the rest. Today....it's not bad