Page loads in random spurts?

[ephigenie]

hm i see you got fast disks - but your system is reacting slow...
don't have a clue about what happened on your system - but i can tell you what's causing a little delay :

the fastcgi process has to be started first. Thats taking a moment. But usually on new systems its up in <1s . your system is by far fast enough to do it like that.

If you don't know what else to do - just go into your /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/fastcgi.conf and set the idle + kill timeout bigger than the php process won't get stopped so quick if nothing happens.