I'm not quite sure why it costs so much to run this forum? I run a bearded dragon forum and it only costs me about 20 bucks per year in hosting fees, my time is free. Maybe you could explain the costing ?
Sure thing. Because its a VPS (Virtual Private Server), its dedicated to APS only. This is due to over 100GB of photos and history of the site which no one can guarantee on a hosted provider.
Here is the breakdown if it helps.
2GB Memory
500GB Bandwidth
400% CPU
100GB Disk Space + 25GB add-on
5 cPanel licences
Acronis Backup
CentOS 6 + Cloudlinux (support for this version will be deprecated after next year)
Litespeed Web Server
I could drop 6 years of APS history and pictures which means I could lower the costs significantly however that means we miss out big time.
Hope that helps