I never had real control over hosting or ftp, until soon that is. Now I have my own hosting, thanks to etement's Dreamhost deal ($10 a year and a free .com domain name ain't bad at all).
Unfortunately, I'm unable to retrieve my heatedebates.com (now it's .net) unless I contact the address on the placeholder site, so I'm thinking about changing the name of the forum while I'm at it (just a possibility, maybe I could try to get the other name back). Also, I could start over right away and have a forum available, but so much material and discussions would be lost forever.