No unusual server errors were noted. The hosting service looked into it and saw no concerns. They were to do maintenance and reboot the server last night.
The host reported the site appeared quite responsive during multiple spot checks. No server errors of any concern was noted. The disk capacity and CPU bandwidth were checked and found to be nowhere near limits. They checked the system for required updates and proactively rebooted the server.
yea, it was odd, sometimes i would get no response or slow. Then bam, it was fast. Maybe not a server issue, but network. I had no other issues on other sites, so who knows.