@Miroslav Glavic - As I was composing this post today, the entire site turned into Internal Server 500 errors for awhile. Once the site came back online, I noticed a bp-loader errors all over the place. Looks like the errors are still around. Is that error the only thing you saw? No content?

As for the costs and such of starting out. WPUA was a different breed as they came out of the gate with 4 Platinum level sponsors and a number of other corporate sponsors. Money was not an object at least not from the outside looking in.