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Well, Thank God for things like Dropbox - he has been using some amount of cloud storage & he has a backup external drive.

I will be doing my best to get it up and running - but given that it was initially written in PHP largely, and I am a Ruby guy we are trying to figure out the best way forward (in terms of a sustainability path with hosting resources).

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I do PHP development and would be happy to lend a hand - I have a lot of respect for people like your friend who build things purely to help people so if there's anything PHP development wise he might want help with, send him my way. My email's alex@alexjeffrey.me.

Don't get me wrong, this isn't an altruistic venture. He found a need and built a solution. Now he is exploring ways to make money from it. It's just that it is much trickier than accepting a credit card from a US consumer.

If you are still interested, I would love to drop you a line.

Thanks.

I don't see why not, I misread your original post but I'd still be happy to help.

I'm sure you are exploring this, but would some NGOs be prepared to fund a server/bandwidth for a period of time in return for having health advice/business advice/information on the front page? Just thinking of the African page views he was getting...

Going the NGO way is not appropriate for this.

I am sure we can find a way to monetize, it is just that it is a bit more non-traditional than the TC front-page stories with explosive growth.

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