This site is now hosted by a startup company in Tasmania, running a custom Linux installation on a distributed network of original IBM PCs and Archimedes servers. It hooks into the Internet backbone in Turkey via a superfast infra-red duplex link operating through a surplus Russian satellite. Since Tasmanet don't provide a nameserver facility, our DNS host is located in New Guinea. Partially resolved DNS requests are vectored through the Cuban national network to a final DNS lookup facility in the Falklands, which now handles 90% of internet packet routing for the UK, and provides major employment opportunities for the islanders. Our Guatemalan server is now used exclusively as an overflow buffer to cope with unexpected peaks in demand.

OK, OK, I'm joking. What did you expect from an English site? An irony alert for Americans? I'll start again. This site is now hosted by Freeola (www.freeola.com), and I'm happy to recommend them. They're as free as Freeserve or any of the other "free" providers, but they provide php, cgi and perl for free, a cheap MySql database, and you get fast and efficient email and phone support from humans. You'd have a job to beat their prices on domain registration and hosting.

The main address for this site is www.diabolus.org and my main email address is paul@diabolus.org
 

You can also use www.diabolus.co.uk because I grabbed it pronto when a Slayer fan finally decided that spending hours hacking HTML and Javascript wasn't in keeping with the core ethos of thrash.

I'd like to get www.diabolus.com, but when Sony dropped it, it was snapped up by a bunch of speculators in Massachusetts, who at the last count wanted about 1600 quid for it. Yeah. Dream on, guys. I notice they haven't sold it yet.

There's also a REALLY OLD domain name, www.diabolus-in-musica.freeserve.co.uk which might still be floating around on the back of a fag packet somewhere. It's been dead for years, but no doubt there's some ancient website in Latvia or Bognor that's still quoting it. If you do see it, we'd be really grateful if you would email verbal abuse to the webmaster and a polite note to us. Or the other way round, depending on what sort of a day you've had.

The site is developed using HTML-kit, or whichever hand-editor hasn't yet succumbed to binning through frustration. They're all just glorified versions of Notepad.

I test it in Internet Explorer, Firefox, and an old version of Netscape. I try to make it cute and fluffy on any resolution down to 800x600. If you're viewing on a mobile phone, tough. Getting this lot to display on an earwarmer without horizontal scrolling would take the next six months, by which time it would be out of date.

I think it all works, but my development time has been severely curtailed recently by the discovery of Oblivion. It's just possible that I occasionally rush the testing of a new bit because I want to dash back to Skingrad to flog a cuirass I've just purloined from a goblin. So if you spot a bit that falls over or goes wonky, I'd be really grateful if you would bounce your mouse off the "Email Diabolus" link and squirt me a message. It's my mate Emily's fault. She got me into Morrowind, I bought the sequel, and now I'm a sad addict. Luckily, there's no online version.