One of my customers has moved from "website plus phpBB" to a paid host, StarChapter to be specific. While it's certainly possible to leave phpBB running as a read-only archive, I would be interested in hearing if anyone has successfully ported their 3.x database to StarChapter?
Our board has about 3,000 posts over a 10 year period and I'm not opposed to trimming some of it and only importing the last year or so of messages. Anyone with experience?
Unfortunately, StarChapter is not "just another host." They offer full-fledged association management packages. These are becoming increasingly common as website complexity increases.