we've got them looking into this. We'll we've got them looking into it since yesterday to be honest, and it appears that its a connection problem at their datacenter. We can't use an iframe due to the nature of the "expandable" ad. As i mentioned before, this is the last ad which remains, which would expire today. We'll not be displaying these type of ads on the site anymore.

they've moved the advertisment to another server. It should be fine now.

fortunately, thestar.com.my doesn't get 25,000 pageviews an hour.

well, it won't be necessary. it seems they've got datacenter problems, and they're trying to solve it. We've thrown in google ads to rotate, so things shoudn't be so bad.

My sincerest apologies on their behalf.

are you sure its not your connection? our logs do not indicate anything out of the ordinary during peak hours.

Server load is displayed at the bottom right corner of the screen when you're logged in. The first value is the time the server took to generate the page, while the second is the server load. If the generation time is low (usually less then 1 second) and your page still takes a long time to load, then its probably a problem with your connection to the site rather then the site being slow.