Well, it's going to get buried under all these messages (and might well should) but I should note that as someone who runs three different forums on many different hosts, there are FAR cheaper solutions than what Ben is paying for this forum, and they still maintain very nice response time (the best in the business) from external hosts using quality software.

I pay around $150 a year for all three of my forums (and could easily add more, even including this one if Ben does go under and any of the super mods want). And, yes, I was paying the big bucks as Ben was until I started investigating all of this.

For sure the forum overhead could be reduced greatly and that might help things on his other fronts. But I won't mention it again (you guys all have my email and a way to contact me privately if you want more info).

Oh -- and I'll add that I'm happy he's back, I enjoy this forum, it's helped me a lot.