Folks:
Actually, after I've been banging on the website a while, clicking links on it, and forcibly refreshing (via my browsers' Refresh button), I'm able to duplicate the problem. At first the site responded slower and slower, becoming more sluggish with every "product click" (and click of the web browser's Refresh button), until the site stopped responding for me altogether.
Unfortunately, from the client side, there's not much that can be seen for troubleshooting reasons. If the server chooses to stop responding (i.e. stop sending packets), the client has no idea why.
The only things I can think of, are the following:
1. There's some kind of web server software policy that is "caching" the client's IP address and automatically adding it to a misconfigured "bad client IP address" policy.
2. The web server itself is misconfigured -- perhaps there's a web server pool, and the members of the pool aren't sharing the load correctly. Perhaps some of the traffic is being directed to a member of the web server farm that is DEAD (i.e. crashed).
3. The firewalls and/or reverse-proxy servers in front of the web server farm are misconfigured.
Either way, to help troubleshoot this, we're going to need help from the web master, and possibly the co-location facility that houses the web server farm, to find out why this is happening.
I will be busy this weekend, but I'll try to offer my hand in any troubleshooting if we can get the involvement of the above-mentioned personnel.
-Sean
If you'd be willing to work this out with Roy would you mind calling him? The phone # is on the home page if you can get to it

If you can make it work I will make sure you are happily rewarded Sean. I have the kind of stuff pool players like.....
I know you are super busy but I'd be really grateful. Roy isn't technical here so he could use the help.