Internal Server Errors (a.k.a Getting Settled in at the New Web Host)

[Redrobes]

Heres a quick ping job:

Ping statistics for www.cartographersguild.com:
Packets: Sent = 164, Received = 164, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 17ms, Maximum = 31ms, Average = 19ms

So after 164 pings ALL of them were within a narrow band of time. I get page timeouts too. This means either that one of the routers on the path between me and guild is caching web pages but sending pings through. I know that to be a fact. But if the cache is timing out then it wont fetch a new page. But since everyone is getting this then its more likely that the machine that the web host is running on is plenty fast enough to service pings but is not fast enough to service the web page which means I reckon that the one machine is serving thousands of web sites concurrently. Also, whenever I look we have about 10 members online and about 40 spiders all sucking down pages and torching the processing used to service member page requests. Are we able to limit spider activity to about 5 of them.

EDIT - Hold on a mo !!! 17ms is 17000000ns which is the time it takes light to go 1700 miles there and back and I know I am at least 5000 miles from the server so this is blatant crap. Someone is most definitely serving ping responses without reaching the host.

EDIT2 - Interesting, if I ping from my router then I get this:
77 packets transmitted, 77 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 180.410/183.192/191.118/1.937 ms

So again, a very stable ping time of 183ms which is a bit more like it. Still a bit quick but at least believable this time. MS ping is a croc as usual.