Instead of you starting from scratch why don't you take over the database ?

The Admin could give you the database and you could put it on your own server in a new install, it could be done easily for less than €100 per year and you would have complete control as opposed to using a free hosting service.

The owner of the domain name newfrenchform.com could also give you the domain name, and within 24 hours you could have everything back as it was including all threads, posts, members and passwords.

I have given a forum database and domain to a friend in the past that wanted to keep it going, it's still going today and it would be a shame for you to loose everything.

newfrenchforum has Total posts 258053 • Total topics 11791 • Total members 231 does the current owner and it's members realy want to wave goodbye to all that hard work?

Anyway good luck, I'm just trying to offer some advice on how you could save newfrenchforum.