Should Entmoot stay on ezboard?

We are giving serious thought to moving off of ezboard's server onto our own, using a bulletin board program called vBulletin. They recently adopted an ezboard import tool, so all of the messages here could go over to the vBulletin. Members would have to re-register, but as we would have total control over the board, we would change your post total to your old ezboard total, and re-instate your original date of membership.

Ezboard seems to be doing ok now with CSC, but I still don't think they can last forever. With a vBulletin on our own server, we would have total control over the board. If ezboard suddenly went out of business, we'd be out of luck, but our vBulletin would remain in operation as long as us admins are willing to pay the bills .

It is fairly expensive, but ezboard under CSC is no longer free either. If we became more popular, our costs for ezboard could skyrocket, while the vBulletin is a fixed rate.

We've already installed a featureless test version of vBulletin at www.tolkientrail.com/vblite/index.php

What do you think? If we did transfer Entmoot to vBulletin, would you still continue to visit? Vote in the poll and post your comments please.