Some additional details which may help figure out what is going on...

I was in FT Reviews and chugging along quite nicely, and then hit a brick wall... much like in the past. However, I didn't realize that this happened outside of the forums. So, I went and checked flyertalk.com - no problems loading that page... it loaded quick. Meanwhile, I was still waiting for my review page to load. I then went into the forums and again - it stalled on my request. Back to flyertalk.com - yup, loads fine.

I see that flyertalk.com loads the latest thread posts from the forum system to display on the main page. This means that it is able to query the database properly (although it depends on how the query for flyertalk.com/index* is setup) and also that the webserver is handing out pages okay.

So, I started to think about what was different between the forum pages, the review pages, and the main page.

The only answer that I can come up with is advertisements.

So, the next time that you get a stall, try loading up http://www.flyertalk.com in a new webbrowser window and seeing if that loads fine while the original window remains stalled. That might give a better clue as to what is going on... hopefully.