This is starting to be a more and more common problem because the hosting companies are using fcgid more often (which is a great thing as fcgid and suexec combination has a lot of advantages).

solving the read data timeout for mod fcgid is not as hard as it seems it just required some testing: in http.conf – the configuration file for apache or in a file that’s included in http.conf place the following line:

IPCCommTimeout 120 or any number of seconds you find suitable for your server.