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Thanks…I’m definitely on shared hosting. But, I’ve since isolated this to a routing issue, so will respond here incase it is helpful to anyone in the future. I ran some traceroutes from my location (which is in Europe) to the server, and definitely saw some latency/dropped packets. I wasn’t convinced however, but then I installed a freebie VPN so that allowed me to first to connect to a server in the US, which obviously changed the route from “me” to the server and BOOM…works fine.

Thus, if any future reader is getting the same symptoms it is likely a routing issue, in my case a peering issue, between any of the two carriers between my location in Europe and the server location in CA. (I know..I am thinking about migrating!)

Cheers.