It's all fine and well to say find a new host - bear in mind my over charges are in AUD$ - but I have had problems in the past dealing with overseas hosts, not to mention with the floating exchange rate, I was never sure what the next quarter's charges would be - that's why this time I went with an Aussie host - at least their responses to troubles are prompt and at the worst it is only a local phone call.

Problem seems to be with local hosting here is - you basically get what you pay for, and the features I needed for other parts of my site just weren't available on the "budget" plans.

I'm fairly sure that a lot of these people just download for the hell of it and never actually use the downloaded items.

Looking at these figures, I'm seriously considering using my extra database and re-developing the site into a Postnuke driven site with free membership.

Any other Aussies interested in displaying their art work if I go down this path? If I am going to do it that way - may as well build a decent site, as I don't really feel I could justify a free membership site based on my artwork alone...

We could call it something snappy like the "Land of Oz" or something like that - as we seem to be hiding a wealth of talent down here.....

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Robert A. Heinlein

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