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/Peo, FreeWebSpace.net
For something you haven't created yet, you are asking a lot. I would suggest a remotely hosted board until you see how your community grows. If you can succeed in getting say 50 members, then try for a host for your own board. Everyone dreams of having a 2000 active member community, but very few ever achieve that. Start small and see if it is worth the hassle
I recommend using a remote host for all forums with less than 100 members. Once you reach that plateau, I recommend that you move on to hosting a free script on a paid host. Notice that free webhosts never come into this picture - they are just too unreliable. Unless you have an established community already, I wouldn't count on getting more than 20 members.
3 - 5GB??? Jeez... my community has only sucked up about 700MB of bandwidth so far... and it's already over half way through the month. My forum isn't that big but it has a few members more than one who is considering to start a community.
Get an ezBoard first before giving yourself a brain ache trying to find a host with those specifications.
I dont think it is the fact that they dont know how much it is, they think that sites take a lot more than they really. I run a sim website that really is all files, and it doesnt even use 5gb transfer a month. Close, but not quite.