Whoa. That's a long time since I've seen that name. O_O CODForums was hosted on that site prior to the purchase. Damn. Talk about having a flashback.
I spend about $120/month on a Linux VPS with managed backups, Cpanel, 4 gigs ram, 300 gigs space, and 2000 gb bandwidth.
I currently pay on my one cloud $60 for all of my sites and cPanel / Litespeed. I'm probably going to move all of that to another cloud however due to recent performance.
The max I'd pay is about $60 a month until I said screw it and move my site to something like ZetaBoards.
Id pay about maximum of 5$ a month to host a site. Once its bigger.. Unless its paying for itself im not going to pay extra... Because I'd be loosing money.
Well, the owner was hosting with them before selling CODForums to me. But when I was administrator, I only experienced 1 or 2 downtimes.