If your password contains any unusual characters eg "'`/\@ etc there can be issues depending on your client. Try setting your password to something short (between 6 and 8 characters) that are a-z and 0-9 to be sure.
news.x10hosting.com isnt currently registered, however, I also noticed it hasnt reverted back to the domain available state either.
bumping this to level 2 support.
Part of the problem with the ads is that it runs a script on one server and then goes off to other servers I believe to download the actual ads. This will never load as fast as something directly stored on your site.