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Testimonials
We’ve had a variety of customer being very complimentary recently. Andy Steven runs a series of web cams in the Shetland Islands that stream live views of the northern lights. The cameras relay the...
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8GB and overclocked Raspberry Pi servers
Our Pi 4 servers all wear the Power over Ethernet HAT to provide power and cooling to the CPU. Since the launch of the 8GB Raspberry Pi 4 we’ve had many requests to add these to our Raspberry Pi cloud....
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Bullseye, new Debian release
A small galaxy hit the bullseye of NGC922 about 330m years ago. More information: www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1218a/ Credit:NASA, ESA Congratulations to the Debian team for their new release of...
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Improving the world bit by expensive bit
We’re delighted to announce our sponsorship of Organic Maps. Organic Maps is a simple, user-friendly application that downloads complete Open Street Map data to your phone, allowing you to use their...
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IPv6 Deployment World Leader
Yesterday (7th December) we attended the virtual IPv6 forum annual meeting. We were delighted that our director Pete Stevens has been added to the IPv6 Hall Of Fame as an IPv6 Deployment World Leader....
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Log4J security issues
A log cut into snail shells (public domain image from Simpon Speed) On Friday 10th December we became aware of an extremely serious security issues in Log4J, a logging component in widespread use by...
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Raspberry Pi Desktop now in our Raspberry Pi Cloud
Raspberry Pi Desktop is now available as a supported image in our Raspberry Pi Cloud on all Raspberry Pi 4 servers, providing a true remote desktop. This is set up with the standard desktop operating...
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Debian Bookworm released and fully supported by Mythic Beasts
A bookworm, photo by Dominic Mason On Saturday the Debian team released the latest version of Debian, Bookworm. We’re pleased to announce that this is now available on our virtual and dedicated...
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PHP 8.2
Last year we enhanced our web hosting service with the ability to choose your own PHP verison. You can choose a different PHP version for each website hosted with us, so you can upgrade your staging...
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Exim 0-day
We sponsor exim and provide a VM for their buildfarm. Recently Trend Micro, through their Zero Day Initiative, published a critical flaw for the Exim mail server. It’s described as allowing remote...
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Green hosting
Mythic Beasts is now a verified Green Hosting Provider according to the Green Web Foundation. We’ve demonstrated to the Green Web Foundation that all our UK and EU data centres buy as much renewable...
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HEX-it complete
We elected not to celebrate with Equinix In March 2004 we moved all three of our servers into a single rack in the 6/7 Harbour Exchange data centre, operated at the time by Redbus. The data centre has...
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Electromagnetic Field 2024 sponsorship
We’re pleased to announce that we are silver sponsors of this year’s Electromagnetic Field festival. As in previous years, we will also continue to support the event with free transit. EMF is a long...
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Out standing in two fields
Fibre internet, in a field Keen to build on our previous success at being outstanding in a field, for 2024 we’ve set ourselves a tough new target of being out standing in two completely different...
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Sampling an Electromagnetic Field
A Viewdata terminal with the EMF Schedule We went to Electromagnetic Field 2024 as a silver sponsor. Whilst there we found a lot of fantastic fun things and missed a vast number of others. The really...
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Multi-coloured bandwidth in an Electromagnetic Field
A satisfying traceroute from EMF out to Google via a private interconnect from Mythic Beasts Last month we attended Electromagnetic Field as a silver sponsor. Despite being in a remote field in...
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Changes in .gov.uk
The palace of Westminster where the government lives. Picture by Diliff This year the back-end system for domain names ending in .gov.uk has migrated from JISC (the organisation that provides...
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Simple cancellation
We have absolutely faith that the modern tech industry will innovate to make one-click cancellation even harder than the current state of the art. We’ve long said that the greatest achievement of the...
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IPv6 Networking in the UK
48% of the UK has IPv6 and it’s 10ms faster (credit Google). We recently went to the UK IPv6 Council annual meeting, ten years since the first one. In the intervening time, IPv6 usage in the UK has...
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