When BTC Guild went from 0% proportional to fee-for-PPS, I abandoned. I hated how they worked so hard to become the #2-3 pool and then turned on the fee-switch to rape the users who were already working so hard.
So glad to hear there is a solution! I think the blockchain is like 2GB now? I was thinking, when all the bitcoins are released it would be like 10GB and beyond, but I'm sure you guys are hard at work preventing wasted disk space!
Anyone can ask for donations, at least they don't beg with 1/3 of the screen like wikipedia. Once the donations are piled up high enough, I imagine some new forum software will be built, but I can't see the software being better than the free BB soft out there like phpBB.
all you need to setup hosting business is WHM http://cpanel.net/products/cpanelwhm/index.html and someone capable administering it. there might be other similar solutions out there but WHM is pretty common
Awesome, that URL eliminated so many questions I had. TYVM!!