Well...I've never had the site timeout on me but it does seem to take longer to laod than any other site I visit on a regular basis. At first I thought it was the banner ads but when I visit:

http://216.200.201.212/~adfu/servfu.pl?l,perlmonks,3809

(which appears to be the layer src for the banner here) it loads very fast. I suspect the problem is just that theses pages are all 100% dynamic and the server requires more memory...mod_perl likes to eat RAM ;-)