Every free forum has its drawback - their service can be good one day and sucky the next - FREE MAH Take our old forums for example - it was hosted on jconserv.net.

When we started using it in Dec 06, it was fantastic, uptime was good, you could backup the phpbb forums (although they didnt support some addons). Fast forward to Oct 07, uptime was lousy, backup of the forums was non functional.

We asked around the guild and were lucky enough to have two guildies step forward - one to host the site, the other to design the site.