Well,

The first new host I tried in the middle of this year worked but it was really slow, so I decided to take the plunge and move the Daphne site to a really high quality host. This is now costing a significant amount of money per month so the first step I took to covering this cost was to implement ads. I'm kinda sad to go this direction, but it seems like the solution most likely to succeed. The benefit is that I will probably be more inclined to use this site (ie post on the message board) now that ads are in place.

So I hope everyone enjoys the new fast server and isn't too inconvenienced by the ads. I tried to use similar color schemes to the pages they're on so that they look nice.

I'll be doing some other things in the future to stabilize the financial situation as well.