I have no doubt that Eligius will be up and running again sometime soon.

But I do think it's  fair question to wonder why anyone would spend tens of thousands of their own money, and 12 hour days to support something for free.

I suppose whizkid could be a multimillionaire who is doing it for the love of bitcoin,  or that donations amount to thousands a month.   Otherwise occams razor tells me that there is more to this than meets the eye.