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This is common with a shared hosting web environment.

It means that the server is overloaded, or there are sites on the server using to many resources, thus it runs out of memory and runs very slow giving time-out errors.

The problem usually goes away after a few hours when the server resets itself and frees up memory.

If you start getting this problem often and your host won't do anything about it then it's time to change host.

Also if you are using Access and forums database is getting large and you have allot of visitors this will mean your site will require allot of server resources to run and you should consider looking into using MS SQL server.

MIDesigns, I'm having that very same issue.  My site has recently out grown the capabilities of access and I'm getting a lot of time out errors, exactly as you described.  I really think that your server tech support is right.  It is most likely not a server issue and its probably not a code issue, WWF code is pretty tight.  I've been using WWF for a long time now and I have not come accross a code issue yet.

One way I found to quickly recover from the time out errors was to delete the yourforum.ldb file.  I've found that after deleting that file, the forum starts working again.  The problem is that too many concurrent users are hitting your access db at the same time and access is choking.  I'm seeing the problem when I get around 40 or more users online at the same time.

I'm in the process of converting my access db to SQL but I'm not having very good luck so far.  What I've done is setup up a SQL test forum to work out any conversion bugs.  Once I get it all working then I'll make the switch and I expect that it will run great.  This is a great forum and it would be worth the effort to make the conversion.

Hope that helps.