This can cause pages to take forever to load, server timeouts, or error messages to occur. It makes the web page appear to malfunction, even though there's nothing wrong with it. The best thing to do when this happens is to bookmark the site and try it again later. In the meantime, try accessing a site in another time zone. Please understand that there's nothing a webmaster can do to prevent this problem, it's just the nature of the Internet.
Servers can only handle so much bandwidth, and when that gets exceeded, things jam up.
Some commercial sites solve the problem by putting up mirror sites in other time zones, but that can be expensive and is usually not an option for non-commercial sites like this one. Web sites on the west coast tend to get hit the hardest, because we start getting hit with traffic from the east coast, then with traffic from all the other time zones to the east of us. The reverse is not true because when traffic from the west coast starts hitting them, traffic from their own time zone has died down. The trick is to figure out the best time to access sites on each time zone. Weekday afternoons seem to be the worst time to access web sites.