> In regards to reporting what messages are appearing, I'll try and take more note. When the Web-Application was trying to access the DB, it hangs for a few minutes (perhaps 5-10) and then comes back with a timeout error. I will also use the IBEasy tool and see what error message that comes up with, I'll wait longer than 5 mins ...

It definitely shows that the problem is in your OS and system as
whole, not particularly in Firebird. Perhaps, it just run off available
TCP/IP sockets.

SY, SD.