Sometimes in the past , when we were under attack by robo-spammers , it would slow or jam our server. I think sometimes when they are working on our server it slows things way down. On a rare occasion , too much traffic can crash the server , but these days , that's hard to do. I notice sometimes when Thomas is in the admin section doing something , my JREF speed slows way down. My host company is Time Warner and early in the morning before people go to work and the 3 or 4 hours when people get home from work , the servers seem to run at half speed from user overload.