Due to some sporadic problems with my hosting provider in the past two days, you may see MySQL timeout errors in the left-hand sidebar of the page. I’m working to get this resolved, but it doesn’t seem to affect reading the posts themselves. It seems to be related to the Google AdSense widget in the sidebar, which I’ve disabled for now (I wasn’t going to retire from the proceeds anyway).
If you read this via RSS, of course, the problem doesn’t exist.
I would recommend WordPress.com for hosting your wordpress blog. Now days all popular blog networks like gigaom are using wordpress.com service and also hosting charges are very very less when compared to other hosting sites.
Thanks for the recommendation, Prakash. I also saw a WordPress support thread that had some database tuning recommendations that I’ll try before I start moving hosts.