Wedge

Premium stuff is just dandy for people with sites taking IN premiums. Us li'l kiddies that just want to host simple boards and are attracted to SMF for the S part...well...paying money just for glorious chitchat or political debate just ain't worth it.  ***taking a more serious look at SMFNew***

Ya, I'm not familiar with whom owns what--I just look at the terms. Knowing that I was avidly avoiding upgrading my active board from 2RC2 to Gold, I set up a test board on SMFnew just to test drive Gold. And yeah, it was too much of a limitation for me to see how it handled. What bugs me is that when I asked about paid hosting, I was told I could put my board on their site for x amount of dollars and if I opted to have them do the transfer, it was an extra $30-ish bucks.  When I went back some weeks later to inquire as to how exactly to go about hosting my board, the reply I got presumed that their doing the transfer was the only option available.  I said I already had my stuff backed up on disk and would prefer to do things myself...and that's where the discussion ended.

Well, no matter how stuff winds up getting handled, one thing I know for sure--no Gold for me unless and until I can get every mod that I currently have on 2RC2 properly operational on Gold, and nobody can talk me out of it. ;)

It's fairly commonplace for a hosting service to throw a few bones to you for free while the whole featured shebang isn't available unless you pay a premium, though...and that includes limits on database size. It's pretty much par for the course.