For $2.50 a month you can have dedicated server access 1,000 pm limit, full text search, and a high bandwith connection. Sure all of this used to be free and still is in a more limited package but the hardware and bandwidth demands were much lighter then therefore less expensive to provide. I have been here since the K6 launch days and can't think of going anywhere else. For all the years of great information on the main site and in the forums $2.50 a month is a very small price to pay.