Strangely enough, FW has been working just fine for me all day. It's been a little slow, but so has Pocketplane.
And if FW is really using 400 GB of data transfer a month, then you definitely need to get your own server.
well in the last six months the main page has used between 60-80 gb bw a month, excluding hosted sites with between 1.5 and 2.5 million hits according to the stats program running, the forum hits are rougly 2-3 times more, yes i know its likely alot of rereshing and no caching but it all adds up no matter how you look at it, the online max of 128 wasnt a forum glitch. Now i know jason thinks im lying as ive just been forwarded his message frankly i wish i was because id like better uptimes for the site and forums and better service for the hosted sites too, however im not, i also didnt ask for money, i wanted to see who would help out *if* i was daft enough to want to spend 600 or so dollars a year on a dedicated server for everything fw hosts (and yes that would mean files too)
oh and right now its between 200 and 300gb a month, the 400 minimum is just being sensible, getting anything less would be silly if the forum is to keep growing.
Oh and the ddos thing jason, I know, golden oldie but thats what the owner of tf told me when i asked, aparently he has pissed off a few people lately by deleting them from the network *shrugs*