Momus website RIP

(joking aside, I hope this site is up again right quick)

My sympathies re. hosting bills - I suspect Demon are a rip-off though so some good will come of this when you find another host.

http://www.ipowerweb.com/
(seems good, plus i think you can double bandwidth by just buying 2 accounts which is less that those shitty folks who start adding on $25/GB or whatever)

love,
the folk hero of html

have you tried http://www.ghoulnet.co.uk

momus, have you thought of setting up a paypal account? it's really a shame to see this go down permanently.

I'm sorry, Momus. I feel your pain. My old site only recently stopped giving me the "not authorized to view this page" message and went completely dead and gone.

Drop me a line if interested.

It's the least I can do for a fellow who has cracked me up so many times!

If you need a cheap domain name, I use www.namesecure.com. They charge $15/year for one year but the price slides to only $9.90/year if you buy 10 years. Too bad somebody else already has www.momus.com, though.

So hurry up, already. I'm jonesing for the next essay and "pic of the day."

Andrew, that's a kind offer. I haven't yet heard back from Daniel, who made a similar offer. My concerns are:

1. It should be free for me and for the public.
2. Permanence. I want it still to be there in ten years.
3. Freedom from censorship, advertising, editorial pressure, moral pressure, etc.
4. FTP access by me. I do all the coding, uploading etc myself. I'm very low maintainance. In fact, no maintainance!
5. Size. I'd need about 500 MB, I reckon. Although Daniel's offer of a gig was nice! Would encourage me to put a lot more mp3s up.
6. Bandwidth. It should be able to handle multimedia files and about 1000 hits a day.
7. Aliasing. I want to buy a domain name and have the address be 'www.whatever.com'.
8. Redirection. I'd like to set up a redirect from www.demon.co.uk/momus to the new site, but maybe this is a service I need to buy from Demon, which will be problematic if I owe them a ton of money (and they just e mailed me today, and I do. A ton. Bridges burned, then.)

Any advice on these points, anyone?

Was going to suggest that you look into V3 com, and click on "Web Hosting". However, they only go up to 300 MB, though they do give FTP access.

Onward.

for the public yes, for you - possibly ;)

2. Permanence. I want it still to be there in ten years.

is fairly secure as its a dedicated unit that i pay for. and seeing as i now can't live without one i would endeavour to secure another one very quickly should anything ever happen to my current providers

3. Freedom from censorship, advertising, editorial pressure, moral pressure, etc.

no problem

4. FTP access by me. I do all the coding, uploading etc myself. I'm very low maintainance. In fact, no maintainance!

no problem

5. Size. I'd need about 500 MB, I reckon. Although Daniel's offer of a gig was nice! Would encourage me to put a lot more mp3s up.

can meet this

6. Bandwidth. It should be able to handle multimedia files and about 1000 hits a day.

gigs a day not a problem so should be fine

7. Aliasing. I want to buy a domain name and have the address be 'www.whatever.com'.

np

8. Redirection. I'd like to set up a redirect from www.demon.co.uk/momus to the new site, but maybe this is a service I need to buy from Demon, which will be problematic if I owe them a ton of money (and they just e mailed me today, and I do. A ton. Bridges burned, then.)

yes this ball is in Demon's court sadly - but i'm sure something could be worked out with them

I'm going to make this a bit less verbose that my original reply, so I can
get it off to you quickly...

> Do you host it yourself at home on your own server,

A PC Server, in my own home, hooked up via DSL connexion. It's got mirrored
hard drives, it backs up nightly to DLT tape drive, and also backs up to a
TSM backup server, allowing point-in time restores. This ensures data is
protected from both physical failure, as well as butterfingers. I lost a
lot of work once, and take pains to ensure it won't happen again.

I update my DNS records automatically several times a day with No-ip.com,
and I keep spare hardware handy in case of failure.

I'm a decidated unix Sysadmin concerned about security, uptime,
availability, and integrity of data. You'd have your own Lunix devel
environment as well, if you desire to play with such things.

>How's the bandwidth (I think my site gets up to 1000 hits a day,

Raw hits wouldn't be a problem in themselves, but culmulative bandwidth
could be an issue, if you're streaming a lot of multimedia. An ideal
scenario (for me) would be to host your core website on my server, and them
farm your multimedia out over a few other depots, in order to split up the
traffic. I can help arrange sites... Many of my buddies have DSL connexions, and I'm sure they'd be happy to contribute to the effort. It would be transparent to web site users.

> although obviously links to the new address will take a while to establish)?

I figure that we could have this up and running in two days, if we
coordinate well. Here's a summar of "todos" as I see them:

1) Momus registers his domain name with no-ip.com (1 hour)
2) Dan configures server to host site (4 hours)
3) Momus uploads site to server (~5 hours)
4) Dan checks site, ensures proper functioning, tweaks where needed.
5) Site goes publicly online!

> And is it likely to endure online for years?

As long as I'm around! The beauty of having your own domain name, is that
IF it should be necessary for you to move in the future, you can move in a
day, and still keep the same domain name.

> Are you sure you can spare that much space (I probably only need half that)
for what might be years? And would there be any kind of content restrictions?
(Not that I'm planning to go crazy with obscenity or multimedia or whatever.)

Easily! As mentioned, bandwidth is a bit of an issue tho, but there's
several ways we can manage that if you're flexible.

>Where are you physically located?

Calgary, alberta, Canada.

> I'm thinking of buying www.imomus.com

As you like. I assume momus.com, momus.org, and momus.porn are gone?

> Tell me more! And thanks, already! If you're in New York, we could do lunch
next week, I'm there. (If you're in San Francisco, today. If you're in London,
the week after next. Phew.)

You're a busy fellow! I'd love to stop by, but we're too far. I'm in
Kentucky at the end of this month, if that helps...

This restriction is likely less than ideal for you. A commercial, no-cap solution would be far better for you, but my price is hard to beat!

I'm happy to work with you on the matter though... I'm sure some stuff can be hosted locally, and some stuff can just be distributed among a few depots. My buddies would all be glad to help out.

Not a problem, althoug a copy of Oskar would be appreciated, as I can't get one in Canada.

2. Permanence. I want it still to be there in ten years.

It'll be around as long as I am! It's best if you buy your own hostname, as it enables YOU to move to to any server you want. The hostname is just an alias, that can point to wherever you like, meaning that in the event you do need to change servers, you can do so seamlessly.

3. Freedom from censorship, advertising, editorial pressure, moral pressure, etc.

Not a problem, although I may exert moral pressure for a copy of Oskar.

4. FTP access by me. I do all the coding, uploading etc myself. I'm very low maintainance. In fact, no maintainance!

This is the way I'd visualized it, although I'd provide Sftp access, instead of ftp. Works much the same, but more secure for you and I.

5. Size. I'd need about 500 MB, I reckon. Although Daniel's offer of a gig was nice! Would encourage me to put a lot more mp3s up.

Not a prob. Truly, I've got tons of free space... Past a certain point, bandwidth could become a bottleneck, and in that case, I'd want to move the MP3z to offsite depots, which I'd arrange foryou.

6. Bandwidth. It should be able to handle multimedia files and about 1000 hits a day.

Hits not a problem... Bandwitdth not a problem, to a point.. See above.

7. Aliasing. I want to buy a domain name and have the address be 'www.whatever.com'.

Easy. Even multiple aliases can point to the same site.

8. Redirection. I'd like to set up a redirect from www.demon.co.uk/momus to the new site, but maybe this is a service I need to buy from Demon, which will be problematic if I owe them a ton of money (and they just e mailed me today, and I do. A ton. Bridges burned, then.)

Dunno about that one... See my post above.

go back to paisley, nick.

(not really)

details only given to you by return e-mail.

or you can try simply names and get 250mb for around £100 pounds with name.

Graham

I can give you 100mbs for six months until things get sorted out.

Graham.

1. It should be free for me and for the public.

Free for the public I get & am cheered by, but I don't understand why the rest of us who have websites should pay for ours while Momus's must necessarily cost him nothing.

http://www.savoy-truffle.de/dylan/bilder/usaforafrica.jpg

There comes a time when we heed a certain call.

(drumroll)

www.imomus.com

The blackout is over! To all the angels, samaritans and bystanders, I have just one thing to say: 'Let me entertain you!' No sleep till HTMLmersmith! We will rock you! etc.

From Grant Morrison's homepage http://www.grant-morrison.com/links.htm:

"www.demon.co.uk/momus/ - Brilliant insight from Nick Currie, my favourite songwriter and cultural commentator"

Things you never want to hear from your butcher, part XII

J-Morrison has mentioned being a momus fan in interviews before, as well. I wonder if they've ever met and what they might have talked about.

-Rosh