We have just moved to a new dedicated server that has Windows 2008 and SQL Server 2008. I am trying to access an ASP page on the same server using Server.CreateObject
I had this same issue. In my case the web request I was trying to make was an internal site url (within the same app pool). With server side debugging set to enabled, the asp app pool seems to be restricted to a single worker thread. By disabling this feature, the request was then able to be processed.