Happy to help and ty for the details :) 

8 AM is about 1 AM server time (Chicago/CT). There are a lot of batch scripts running around 12 AM (ex. start/end sales), so that's what you may be experiencing at that time. I believe others have experienced this occasionally, but you'd probably run into it a lot more than those in the US just based on the time zone. 

We do have timeout errors in our issue tracker, I'll see if there's any way to prioritize those.