IPv6 only hosting
Last week at the UK Network Operators Forum Pete gave a talk about our IPv6 only hosting, progress we’ve made and barriers we’ve overcome. It’s now available to view online
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DNSSEC now in use by Raspberry Pi
Over the past twelve months we’ve implemented Domain Name Security Extensions, initially by allowing the necessary records to be set with the domain registries, and then in the form of a managed...
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I know that I know nothing
Over a thousand people put together 43000 packages which forms the universal operating system. One of the hazards of going to the pub in Cambridge is that very smart people will occasionally ask you...
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VPS-not-so-lite
We’ve upgraded our VPS Lite service to bring it onto the same hardware platform as our standard VPS offerings. Our base level virtual server is now the VPS 1 and has 1GB RAM and 20GB disk. It’s...
View ArticleSneak preview from Mythic Labs, Raspberry Pi netboot
We don’t like to pre-announce things that aren’t ready for public consumption. It’s no secret that we’d love to offer hosted Raspberry Pis in the data centre, and in our view the blocker for this being...
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Upgraded backups
Servers need different backup strategies to Vampire Slayers. Our backup report caught a warning from the backup on our monitoring server: WARN - [child] mysqldump: Error 2013: Lost connection to MySQL...
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We’ve made some improvements to our Raspberry Pi Cloud. Upgraded kernel to 4.9.24, which should offer improved performance and a fix for a rare crash in the network card. Minor update to temperature...
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Cambridge Beer Festival, Raspberry Pi powered Apps for Beer
We drew the architecture diagram for the beer festival on a beer mat. Today marks the first day of the Cambridge Beer Festival, the longest running CAMRA beer festival, one of the largest beer...
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Save the Black Horse
The last pub in Dry Drayton has closed and is under threat of development. As a community, we’re working hard to save it. It’s Beer Festival week in Cambridge. Suddenly official work takes a back seat...
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Encryption is vital
We refuse to bid for government IT work because we can’t handle the incompetence. At Mythic Beasts we make use of free secure encryption all the time. Like all powerful tools such as roads, trains,...
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FRμIT: Federated RaspberryPi MicroInfrastructure Testbed
The participants of the FRμIT project, distributed Raspberry Pi cloud. FRμIT is an academic project that looks at building and connecting micro-data-centres together, and what can be achieved with this...
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Within Mythic Beasts we have an internal chat room that uses IRC (this is like Slack but free and securely stores all the history on our servers). Our monitoring system is called Ankou, named after...
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Raspbian Stretch now available in the Raspberry Pi Cloud
A very short service announcement. Raspbian Stretch is now available for Raspberry Pis hosted in our Raspberry Pi Cloud. This joins Raspbian Jessie and Ubuntu Xenial as available images. With all of...
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Education, and the teacher becomes the student.
Learn more about XSS with Google For a long time we’ve sponsored Gwiddle, a project that outgrew its hosting on Microsoft Azure, providing free hosting accounts for students. They’ve now become a fully...
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Capacity upgrades, cheaper bandwidth and new fibre
We don’t need these Giant Scary Laser stickers yet. We’ve recently upgraded both our LONAP connections to 10Gbps at our two London POPs bring our total external capacity to 62Gbps. We’ve been a member...
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Meltdown and Spectre
A rack of Pi 3s… possibly the only cloud computers immune to Spectre? There’s been a lot of activity in the news regarding two new security issues called Meltdown and Spectre. The security issues are...
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Flatpak: pre-assembled furniture applications for Linux
Flatpack is furniture you build yourself. Flatpak is preassembled applications for Linux. This is apparently not at all confusing. (image thanks to https://www.flickr.com/photos/51pct/) Flatpak...
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Raspberry Pi 3B+
Today is Pi Day where we celebrate all things mathematical. Today is a super special Pi day, because a new Raspberry Pi has been released. It takes the previously excellent Raspberry Pi 3 (or 3B, to...
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Retrosnub Acquisition
A Mythic Beast eating a Retrosnub (artists impression) Just before Christmas we were approached by Malcolm Scott, director of Retrosnub, a small cloud hosting provider in Cambridge. His existing...
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Mythic Beasts acquires BHost
Having a hungry Wyvern in our logo makes eating other companies much easier to draw. Hot on the heels of acquiring Retrosnub, we’ve also bought the customers and assets of BHost. BHost are a virtual...
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