Here is the update:
I read some reviews from various sites, and decided to go with
hostgater. They appear to be one of the more reliable "cheap" hosts. We will be the "baby" setup, which includes 600gb of storage, and 6 tb of bandwidth a month. There was no setup fee, if paid by the year, plus they had a special with 20% new orders. The total for the year came to a whopping $95.52.
We also did not have to sign any long term agreement, so after the year, if we are unhappy with the service, we can move to a month-to-month until we move to another service.
I have the account already, with a username (cruiser), can start posting already. I can begin migrating the current host to the new service If I am provided the login/password, and where to get the current data files.
Also, we will have to submit the DNS changes to the current provider. I'm pretty sure i'll need to contact Dave to assist in this. If anyone has his contact information, please send it my way, or give him my information.
By the end of the weekend, I can start creating individual ftp user accounts for everyone. I was thinking we could stick with the same user names we are using here (unless someone really wants something different). Also, I was figuring we could start with 10gb of space for each user initially.
I recommend anyone who is planning on posting items on the site read the
Terms of Service. If anyone breaks the rules, we all lose out. Most of it is pretty basic, no copyrighted material, no pirated software, no spamming, etc.