Hi there folks,
My name is Dan Clement. I'm a sixteen year-old web developer and writer of self-help and informational articles for teenagers. I'm also the lead administrator for TeenInformer - an organisation that combines a fun, safe social networking website exclusively for teenagers with advice and support forums for the discussion and solution of everyday issues.
As a non-profit organisation, we've relied on free web hosting and the generosity of others throughout our website's lifetime. As students just about to start college, we're all very low on cash (to be blunt) and as our host is becoming increasingly more unreliable and irritated about hosting us for free (understandably, in all fairness) and we can't pay for hosting, TeenInformer will close down.
Which is why we are turning to the members of Webmaster-Talk for help. If you are able to host us (or know of somebody who might consider it), we're desperate to hear from you. Our needs are not extravagant - all we need is some space, PHP and one MySQL database and the ability to use our domain name, teeninformer.co.uk (although if this isn't possible, we'd gladly get rid of it and use a sub domain or something). There is little we can offer in return, as the adverts on the site generate very little revenue (although you'd be welcome to anything we can scrape together). If you'd like us to advertise your business or sell your products or something, just say the word and it'll be a done deal.
If you'd like to take a look at what we've got going on, take a peek at
www.teeninformer.co.uk/index.php - we're running a very stripped down version right now to keep our host of our backs for a while. A test account is available and if you'd like to take a look around in more depth, do let me know (if there's one thing we do best, it's show people around our site. We've had to do it several times now...).
We can be reached at
teeninformer@gmail.com. If there's even a small chance of getting hosted somewhere, we'd really like to hear from you. We've put a lot of time, work and care into our community and (hopefully) helped a few people along the way and it'd be a shame to see it go to nothing because we can't afford to pay.
Thanks a lot for your time, guys.
Dan Clement and the TeenInformer team.
