Well, this forum as 30,000 members....

Let's say roughly 1,000-2,000 are active participants....

charge $5 a year.... that's about $5-10,000 for paying hosting services....

Of course, that would lead to alot of difficulties... what to do with new members who only post once or twice, require them to pay? That would drop the forum's usefulness... they would go somewhere else...

I can't imagine the site is getting that many hits where its an unbearable amount of traffic, so it has to be the server....