I overviewed the Terms of Service and saw that there was not anything against sites that required logins to view, so I figured it would be fine to host a forum for a coven that a few friends and I wanted to make. This was primarily due to problems from the group we originally came from (which...
I too am having MYSQL connection issues. I just set up a forum yesterday and sent out an email for all the members of the forum to move to the more recent one.