More comments.

My last communication with Ben in early November indicated all was well from a health standpoint. I hope that is still true.

The cost of running a site such as this is directly linked to the bandwidth purchased. Cost is relative. To Bill Gates...way in the noise. To most normal people, Poolforum is very significant I would bet. It all has to do with how easily and quickly people access the site. Just looking at stats for the number of users online etc I would bet Ben pays a good bit of $$$.

As for other costs, the hardware and software are not cheap.

Backups are another issue. We have no idea if anything is being done.

Systems can run for a long time unattended. I believe Ben hosted the old stuff, before VBulletin, on Linux. No idea of the present platform.

I more than anyone because of my long association with poolforum, hope Ben does surface. He has a great and loyal following.

Think positive....it will all be resolved eventually.

I wish I could be of more help and enlightenment but I can't.

Al