I want to get a large group of us in on this and the monies will come to me

But first I need to know how many people are down for this that way we can figure out how many years we can lock into.

And the Gallery is slow because of the load on the server itself since it is doing more than just serving up our gallery.

But yes Toasty is right. It would be a central location to keep all of our pictures, How it is organized can be decided later when I install a gallery application.

I already have a few domain names that can be pointed at the hosting account so that is no biggie.

My thought is if everyone put in $36 then they are paying for a year of hosting right there

This is what am looking at:
http://www.godaddy.com/hosting/web-hosting-new.aspx

Ultimate hosting plan is normally $14.99 a month... with my discount its only $3.00 a month