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You can't simply expect things to burst over-night. If some people are joining that's great news - it shows you're offering an attractive reason for people to join you. Ask your members to tell their friends about you, or at least add links to your site in their signatures on other forum's. These things take time, although it sounds like you're doing things correct at least. source

I'd suggest placing an ad in the advertising forums here, combined with giving people a reason to choose you. Why should people choose your hosting company rather than one of the many others. I'd also suggest you don't try and use price as your USP. Trying to beat the bottom of the market probably won't end well! source

What's the going rate if you're paying for articles? Is there any site out there where you can put up a "article wanted" ad? source

No, generating a new Facebook object on each page is pretty standard. It's not particularly expensive, since it's just a bit of local PHP code that examines the variables that were passed. source

I'd like to transcode by entire PC based FLAC library into Nero AAC for use on a portable player. What is the best way automate this task and preverse the tags? source