data access timeouts

[Hugh Welford]

Hi

I'm beta testing a community membership site using ACCESS/asp on
IIS5/windows server, shared with other sites. The performance is not
consistent - sometimes OK, sometimes very slow and sometimes data access
scripts time out (even when timeout set to 5 minutes) - sometimes the server
recovers, and others a re-boot is necessary.

Can some one tell me if there are (or where I can find out if there are)
performance issues involving
1. shared servers
2. incorrect data access set-up resulting in data access
(e.g.concurrency/record locking, etc) problems
3. possible sloppy asp coding resulting un resource-hogging/non release,
record locking etc.

Thanks a million for any pointers in the right direction

Hugh Welford