I had to ask, because we have sworn to our members that the forum WILL survive, it will never disappear, it will always be available (well, there MAY be brief outages lasting minutes, nothing lasting days) I want to make sure YOU will be around, too and we won't be moving again in 12 months!

Many of our members came from 2 other AMC forums that went belly-up, they disappeared for various reasons and people are very gun-shy. They are afraid that we, too, will disappear.

So we've sworn we won't disappear. That's our first mission. Always available and we'll be around in years to come.
Backups are important. Availability is important. I'm the responsible party.

Gulp!
I'll do some looking on your site here, but will an install on your servers support direct image uploading and hosting within the forum? A lot of folks have pictures of their cars and historical documents and dealership items. Features, we want features, too!

OK, we can lock 12 months at the half-price offer, and that's all we can pay for for now, correct? Then we'd do another year at a time after that.
Our current host furnishes us the space, etc., they do nightly backups, but we pay a premium to be able to have them selectively restore a file or files, should one get messed up. We call them and ask them to restore xxx.xxx file from last nights backup for example.
They also furnish our domain name for "free". In other words, we pay the hosting fee, pay about $1.50 a month restore service, and they pay for our domain name. One name. Additional domain names are at the regular price. They call it "free domain name for life".