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Right I agree with Mel and Leonis. I thought when I first signed up for a free account at Ranchoweb how lucky I was to have space for hosting a decent amount of pics, all for free. But if you had seen how Ranchoweb was getting, especially during the Christmas holidays, you'd understand why they are asking for money now. It was totally bogged down, and at one point they had to shut down all the free memberships just to keep the paying ones moving (albeit incredibly, unbelievably, slowly). I can just imagine how many people have used Ranchoweb over the years because of its free service, I can imagine the heavy loads on the servers, and Ranchoweb has to pay money and most likely invest a lot of their own time to keep those servers going. So it is not surprising that they did all they could do, generously gave free service for so long to so many, until they just couldn't do it anymore, couldn't afford the out-of-pocket expenses any longer.
Again, it shouldn't affect anyone on this forum, as not only me, but I'm sure many here, would be happy to host things for IWs members who are in need.
And yes, Mel is right, there is another thread somewhere about this subject that was posted a few days ago (probably on page 2). [img]smile.gif[/img]
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