I'm a newbie. My Zen cart site has been running for a little over a month, and ever since first installing, I've had intermittent slow loading. Every so often (several times a day, at least) it will take up to a minute for a page (home page, product page, admin page, whatever) to load. The slow load can happen at any point--on initial entry to the site that day, or after I've been working in admin for over an hour adding products. It seems completely random.

I am running version v1.3.9f. (Too chicken to install the new v1.3.9g.) It's installed on my friend's server, along with several other sites I've built that aren't shopping carts. None of those sites load slowly.

I've done all the things that the FAQs about slow loading suggest except for turning off specials on the home page. (The intermittent slow loading occurred even before there were specials on the home page.)

Does this sound like a server-side problem? Or is there something obvious one of you can see in the way I've set things up? Here's the domain name, with spaces between each letter to befuddle the search engines.

w w w . o k e y d o k e y g o o d i e s . c o m

I'm grateful for any advice you can send my way.