I'm looking at VPS options as well and that does look like a promising method of reducing our costs. One problem might be the old forum script. Since it is so old, it might not run properly on the newest versions of PHP. I'd hate to hobble a new server because of this forum script's shortcomings. My ideal plan would be to first get a new, more modern forum script up and running and then switch to a VPS. (The old forum script's database would move over and part of my new forum project is moving old user accounts and old posts to the new forum script. In fact, this is going to be the most difficult portion as there are no import routines for DCForum.)