Hi Bart Welch,
Sitefinity works as each other standard ASP.NET application. Most probably you SQL server goes down. You could try to increase the connection string timeout property value, but if the server is down this will not help. You should ensure that your host offer 99% up time.
Best wishes,
Ivan Dimitrov
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