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Toby Goodwin (1968-2018)
At Mythic Beasts we rotate staff members around different roles. This is to protect the company from the unlikely event that a staff member is abducted by aliens and someone else has to take over at...
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libssh emergency update
An attack so simple my cat could get root on your server. Managed customers of Mythic Beasts with libssh installed will have just received a notification that we updated it without warning or testing....
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Mythic Beasts gaan naar Nederland
The art warehouses in Amsterdam look much prettier than the data warehouses. Back in July 2018, Mythic Beasts acquired Bhost, giving us additional virtual machine (VM) clusters in London, Amsterdam and...
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Out standing in a field
Mythic Beasts: out standing in a field Last year the Cambridge Beer Festival tried accepting payments by contactless cards. This didn’t work very well. They built a wireless LAN around the bar so that...
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Raspberry Pi on Raspberry Pi
Question: Is the Raspberry Pi 4 any good? Answer: It’s good enough to run its own launch website with tens of millions of visitors. Raspberry Pi 4 with PoE mounting points already attached. The...
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VMHaus services now available in Amsterdam
Integration can be hard work Last year we had a busy time acquiring Retrosnub, BHost and VMHaus. We’ve been steadily making progress in the background integrating the services the companies provide to...
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Let’s Encrypt support for older Debian
This cat is secure, but not dehydrated. (Credit Lizzie Charlton, @LizzieCharlton Debian Jessie and Debian Stretch include dehydrated, a useful command line tool for managing Let’s Encrypt certificates....
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Updates to sympl to continue to support Let’s Encrypt
Before you 3D print the keys from the photo, you should know they are no longer in use. We’ve now updated Sympl to support the new ACME v2 protocol for long term Let’s Encrypt support. Let’s Encrypt is...
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IPv6 updates
Last Thursday we went to the IPv6 Council to speak about IPv6-only hosting and to exchange information with other networks about the state of IPv6 in the UK. @UKIPv6Council & @Mythic_Beasts Pete...
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Security in DNS, TLSA records now available in our control panel to support DANE
The Internet is better when it’s secure. Finally, thanks to Let’s Encrypt it’s possible to automatically get SSL certificates free of charge and as a result the Internet is dramatically more secure...
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Working with talented people.
You can buy another copy in a bookshop if your cat refuses to return the one you already own. We like working with talented people be they staff, customers or suppliers. That’s why we give discounts to...
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Covid-19
The European Bio-informatics Institute used x-rays and a lot of hard maths to draw the above picture of the main covid-19 protein. We provide critical infrastructure to many other companies who rely on...
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Covid 19 update
Microscopy image of the coronavirus.(Image copyright NIAID; licensed under CC-BY 2.0) Covid-19 has dramatically changed life in the UK, and the lock-down announced on Monday has lead to further changes...
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US hosting launch
Now offering servers at 122″ W In 2018, we gained a small presence in the US thanks to our acquisition of BHost. Establishing a US presence had been a long-standing company plan, and the acquisition...
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Raspberry Pi 4 now available in our Pi Cloud
Our PI 4 servers all wear the Power over Ethernet HAT to provide power and cooling to the CPU. We’re now offering these in our Raspberry Pi Cloud starting from £7.50/month or 1.2p/hour. Since the...
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New improved VPS pricing
Time passed and everything grew. We have just rolled out a substantial update to our price list for virtual private servers. The new price list is significantly better value, and also introduces the...
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Save £700/month with a Mythic Beasts VPS and OpenStreetMap
Cambridge Freegle pictured on a map backed by OpenStreetMap tiles from the Mythic Beasts hosted tile server. We’re supporters of Freegle, a charity that recycles unwanted things by passing them on to...
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Raspberry Pi Cloud updates, 64 Bit OS support
Two new fans of our Raspberry Pi cloud. It’s been less than two months since we launched the Raspberry Pi 4 into our public cloud. Take-up exceeded our predictions to the extent that we briefly ran out...
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IPv4/IPv6 transit in HE Fremont 2
Back in 2018, we acquired BHost, a virtual hosting provider with a presence in the UK, the Netherlands and the US. Since the acquisition, we’ve been working steadily to upgrade the US site from a...
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Nominet: managing .uk for public benefit
We have signed up to Public Benefit, an effort to restore Nominet to its roots as a public benefit, not for profit organisation. Nominet runs a world class registry for domains ending in .uk. Their...
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