Upgrading to premium membership is very much appreciated.

The cost is $30 a year, and it take 60 memberships just to offset our annual hosting costs.
We currently spend $150 a month for IDNForums hosting on its own dedicated server, including daily data backups and 24-7 tech support by svwh.net.
Also a thanks to the Admins behind the scenes who futz with tweaking the database and server, updating versions of VBulletin and deal with loonies, stalkers
and spammers. We appreciate all that help support our "free" forum by upgrading to a Premium membership.