"here is the kicker, photos, video, music ... they take space. Max would have to pay a much higher rate then he does right now to house all of that stuff."

Correct in principle, but it's usually bandwith, rather than storage, that's the dominating cost factor.

I'm with the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" brigade, with a couple of qualifications/comments:

• A project as old as Mudcat can wind up with code so complex, because of all the tweaks and additions made over the years, that it becomes difficult to maintain.
• Whereas CMS (Content Management Systems) were quite hard to use a few years ago, they are becoming easier to use and more reliable and functional than they were, and many of the are free.
• Some desirable new features might be easier to do (available ready-made) with a CMS.
• For the DT, freely available web-linked database technology is possibly far better that whatever is being used now, which I believe is quite old software.

Against that is the enormous overhead of converting everything to a new system...
Anahata