Same on my end, but here its most of the times the error "can't create secure connection" only a few times a "connection timeout". However, when I see it takes longer than usual, then I immediatly click the same link again once or twice, which will then almost immediatly load the wanted page. But my guess, its a problem on my providers side rather than on QB64's providers side, because it happens for most of the pages I visit during the day, not only to QB64.org.
Maybe we got a few Halloween Gremlins into our internet lines :)