[feldon34]

20 megabytes would hold this Forum for about 2 months, then we'd have to start deleting messages. And all of those free webspace services are going bankrupt. Look at how useless Mydrive, I-Drive, Driveway, etc. have become. Geocities and the other webhosts are extremely slow and have annoying floater ads.

I am not interested in hosting this Forum somewhere free, because I know at some point they will pull the plug (which has been happening a LOT lately--with no chance to save the messages) or it will end up with just as many advertisements as EZBoard in a desparate attempt to not go bankrupt.

The well is running dry. I have contacted ClearBlueMedia.com, Fastclick.com and a few other advertisers and they just aren't interested the way they were 9 months ago. The banner ad and popup ad companies are having a tough time getting advertising revenue because all the dot.com companies are going dot.bust. As a result websites that have advertising aren't getting paid as much and aren't getting courted to carry ads anymore.

I've been trying since February to get a single advertising banner at the top of my website. I have 27,000 unique hits a month. So far, no takers.

Ah yes, the point of all this. I want to go to *something* that we pay a few hundred for, that will be stable and handle discussion of all 4 screen savers plus the extra users we get when the Aquarium hits big (more than just website sales).