Well, I've disabled the CPAN nodelet as you and elusion have suggested, and that has definitely improved things, though the problem persists. About every ten minutes, I have to wait a minute or two before pages start loading again. I'll try systematically removing other nodelets to see if I can narrow down the problem.

Regarding your suggestion of visiting the offering plate, I would venture that this is more of a task for pmdev than anything else. I doubt that throwing extra hardware or bandwidth at this problem will resolve it.

   MeowChow                                   
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