Maybe CB, maybe. It's easy to promise the world when you have a new site. This site has 32,000 members with 25% visiting weekly and 50% visiting monthly. There are over 135,000 messages in the forums and about 15,000 images in the gallery. We have to consider not only drive space, but also bandwidth limitations. We do our best to keep the site fairly responsive with the load the machine continually has. By only allowing links to be posted to the free stuff and tutorial sections, we are able to offload some of the bandwidth requirements to other servers and at the same time drive traffic to the websites of our contributors. Just one coders opinion.